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Neither lifeguards nor medical personnel are required to risk infection. Otherwise most of doctors and nurses would be already dead or being the source of new infections or pursuing other careers.
"Neither lifeguards nor medical personnel are required to risk infection."
He was worried about infection from a 3 year old? So worried that he was willing to let him die? We are breeding a generation of cowards and apologists for cowards.
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He is not required to risk his life to save lives? But he is a LIFE GUARD, isn't he? Not the guy who cleans the picnic tables. If he is not going to SAVE LIVES, then he should not have that job. It sounds like he can pick and choose who and when he wants to rescue? And he gets the last call?
Well, he's not "required" to work as a "lifeguard," either. Maybe he should earn his paycheck in some other, less scary, way.
Heh. My s-i-l possibly saved the life of a man who attempted suicide a couple of weeks ago. He shot himself(or so it seems) while sitting in his lounge chair. My s-i-l was in her apt. and heard her elderly neighbor yelling. She lives right outside Jackson MS, and was concerned that the thugs who had beaten an old lady senseless had moved out into the burbs. She ran out, then heard a young woman yelling from an upstairs balcony that her husband had shot himself.
S-i-l went running up, grabbed some towels and held them on the wound. While she was doing this, he slumped over, and she saw the exit wound. She had towels on both wounds when the PD came running in, guns drawn. They asked if she was a 'medical', and as she recounts, the first thing that came into her mind was "no, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.". Fortunately for her, she didn't say it; it's likely the cops would not have been in the frame of mind for a joke.
To make a short story long, she had been having trouble with some outbreaks on her hands, and there were places of raw skin. The EMTs gave her something to wash them, but she got tested for the HEPs and HIV a couple of days later. She apparently can't compel blood tests from the guy, and she hasn't been able to get any information about him because of privacy laws.
Yes, she realized later that it was a stupid thing to do, to run IN the direction of a discharged weapon, then hold some bloody guy with her bare hands, but we're awful proud of her. If he lived, it was likely because of her willingness to do what she did.
I'm with you. You just don't know where these 3-year-olds have been. So many of them are engaging in unprotected sex these days. It's a hazard of our time.