So many things to be upset about in this article, here’s just one:
Because patients who enroll in the service forgo curative care, hospice may harm patients who aren’t actually dying. Sandy Morales, who until recently was a case manager at the California Senior Medicare Patrol hotline, told me about a cancer patient who’d lost access to his chemotherapy treatment after being put in hospice without his knowledge. Other unwitting recruits were denied kidney dialysis, mammograms, coverage for life-saving medications, or a place on the waiting list for a liver transplant. In response to concerns from families, Morales and her community partners recently posted warnings in Spanish and English in senior apartment buildings, libraries, and doughnut shops across the state. “Have you suddenly lost access to your doctor?” the notices read. “Can’t get your medications at the pharmacy? Beware! You may have been tricked into signing up for a program that is medically unnecessary for you.”
Not me. I can’t even do milk that is on the expiration date. That sour smell makes me feel sick even if that went away after cooking, just the smell from using curdled milk would probably send me running.
I kind of wonder how much of it is scientists being too optimistic about how natural systems would respond, and how much of it is the assumption that sooner or later people would frickin’ do something to avoid the apocalypse.
Either way, the usual suspects are already still making youtube videos and writing substacks about how YoUr PredIcTioNs aRE aLL wRonG thERefOre ModELS aRe BaD aND CAnnOt Be tRUsTeD anD GloBAl WaRmInG is A LiE!!eleven!
We’ve got the billionaire crowd buying up beach front on “Ontario’s West Coast” in Bruce county. There the “sea level rise” is lake level with about a 14 year cycle (at least, until sea level rise hits 570ft).
(The downside (for the billionaires) is that all land below the high water line, i.e. the beach, is legally public, and the township where my parents live doesn’t allow ownership on the lake side of many roads.)
We’re dealing with almost the exact same thing here right now. My little city and the city across the river (called the twin cities, but not those twin cities) and the county all agreed on the same tiny cabins solution. Got almost half the funding and just need to come up with the rest between the 3 entities, but now it’s a huge fight about where it will be and who pays what.
But we did a survey in recent years and so we know where the unhoused are coming from (mostly my side of the river, but point is, we know the breakdown), so it doesn’t seem that difficult to divvy up costs to set it up. It’s on my mind especially because there was a long article in today’s paper about the local homeless. Including interviews with people who spent last winter in tents. In Maine.
It’s getting cold again.
even if that went away after cooking, just the smell from using curdled milk would probably send me running.
