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Originally Posted by parmnion
when the ambulance service in it's current state causes deaths by taking hours to get to calls should be the thing splattered all over the front pages
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There are problems with the ambulance service (and emergency medical services in general) yes ... ... those ambulances are going to be held up even more by people gluing themselves to the roads?
Honestly the disruption to
normal people's lives really isn't excusable. By all means protest against the government, disrupt the lives (and pockets) of the people who actually have some sway on the climate change issue ... but I don't think any REAL thought has been put into the effects of these road blocking actions. They consider it a disruption to systems and a minor inconvenience to people rather than acknowledging the massive consequences it could have. Healthcare staff unable to get to work. Sick people unable to get to appointments (Something like a cancer diagnosis? Could take months to reschedule. Could be too late by that point). Ambulances stuck in the backlog. People with disabilities caught in the queue for hours actually causing them potential physical damage.
Of course the stock response to this is "acceptable collateral damage because this is such an important issue" but when you have that sort of disregard for vulnerable members of the public, you actively turn people AGAINST the cause, it doesn't gain the support so desperately needed. You're more likely to turn someone from "vaguely sympathetic" to "**** those guys I don't want anything to do with them" than anything else. Completely counter-productive.