Posted on 08/19/2009 1:19:14 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Europe that killed 15,000?
I bet you didn't.
It never made a single banner headline here in the U.S.
It didn't lead the television news one day.
In fact, it was treated matter-of-factly because the terrorist attack that victimized Europe was perpetrated by governments we've been conditioned to believe are "compassionate."
I'm talking about what has been described as last month's disastrous heat wave that killed five times as many people as were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001.
It wasn't really the heat that killed those people – it was the advanced state of socialism that exists across the European continent.
The temperatures never really got all that high – 103, 104. We live with temperatures that high and much higher all summer long in the United States.
The differences?
* Air-conditioning is common throughout the states – both in the workplace and even in low-income homes.
* The best health-care system in the world – a still largely private one – takes care of Americans, especially in emergency situations, without long waits.
That's about it. That's all it took for this disaster to occur in one month this summer. (snip)
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
"There have never been so many deaths in August since the Liberation," declared the front-page headline in France's Le Monde.
That's the trouble. When government runs everything, everyone is responsible. And when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.
The Health Surveillance Institute said it did "all that was asked." The department could find no major faults in its system. Nothing could have been done to prevent the disaster this time – or the next time, according to officials.
There isn't even a plan to deal with the next heat wave. There isn't even much pressure on the government. Why? Because there's no political opposition. In Europe, there are only socialists and socialists to choose from.
Didn’t a lot of medical personnel take their vacations during that summer too?
C’est la vie, c’est le morte, come ce come ca, je ne sais quois.
Of course. It's too damm hot there in August.
Yes, from an AP article at the time:
"In France, authorities placed part of the blame on inadequate care for the elderly and absence of medical personnel in August, a traditional vacation period when residents leave cities and doctors are hard to find. As temperatures soared in the first two weeks of August, elderly victims - alone at home without air conditioning or at overwhelmed nursing homes and hospitals - began to die of heat stroke, dehydration and other heat-related maladies at alarming rates."
An insidious and perverse product of socialism. Without economic or cultural incentive to be "exceptional", indifference will be the result.
I tried to translate what you said to me on Babel Fish and got some nonsensical stuff... please translate...
That was then. Now, the Obama era.
C’est tout mauvais ....
Here’s a great, current NR article on this same subject entitled “August Anniversaries”:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzgyYjNmOGRhODJiNjBlODAxMjFlNmNjZWE2N2VlNTk=
Outstanding. Thank you for linking. I ran across the Farah article when searching for something else. I’m glad NR made this connection too since it will have far more “reach”.
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This article is beyond dumb.
No dates, no hard data, no link or reference to any of the quotes in there... whats a waste of time.
bfl
Yes, I read where a lot of Doctors and Nurses were on vacation at that time.
Yes. In August in many countries, things just shut down. I am told that you had better not get sick on August 15 in Italy. Nothing is open.
In part this is trained infantilism. Even here in Texas, the elderly poor will live in misery, simply they have forgotten how to live without air. Basically, just take enough baths, or if you have a house, get out the garden hose.
Try the article linked in my Reply #9.
Many of these deaths were at state run nursing homes and hospitals. Imagine having such deaths in the US ...the tort lawyers would be all over any private facility that failed to provide air conditioning, but under French socialism just a Gallic shrug and nothing to be done.
“August Anniversaries” now has its own thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319919/posts
If the cap and trade bill passes, we won’t be able to afford A/C along the Gulf Coast. I don’t think Houston would have grown to its present size without A/C.
I remember it like it was yesterday, really almost was. We are lucky in the NE this year, little or no AC required.
France was very hard hit. Old people were left at home without AC and most of the country took the month off. They were on vacation and wouldn’t even go home to bury their parents so the bodies stacked up and overfilled the morgues.
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