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[D Benton Smith]

Elites view themselves rightly or wrongly as being at the top of the heap. Apex predators. Well I’ve got a message for those lions that they would be well advised to digest:

An apex anything that extincts the bottom of its own food chain ain’t gonna be apex for long. A wolf that eats sheep better keep in mind that sheep gotta eat, too. And same goes for the damned sheep, and the grass they gnaw on. Hell, take it right on down to the frigging microbes that feed the grass. Take it all the way down the line to quarks, preons . . . to infinity and beyond. Same rules apply.

There is a great big sign hanging over the entrance to awareness of reality. It reads : “You are entering a zero tolerance establishment. Get it wrong and you’re outta here.”

[Noirette]

Message from France, previous thread, is somewhat ‘hyped’ and contains inaccuracies, though the spirit is fine. Basseterre detailed +++ points about F health care in the previous thread, I take it up again. In F 25% or more of health care is ‘private’ (the insurance arrangements etc. are complex), but in this COV case if the Gvmt. votes in laws that apply to all docs, nurses, i.e. their possessing a licence to practise, that can’t be countered. The 6 months prison sentence and 45K fine are ‘maximums’ and most likely won’t be applied.

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Nurses + other Med. personnel have been striking regularly since Sarkozy, as their work conditions have worsened etc. (as described in the ZH Message from France post.)

Under Hollande after a seeming calm (he promised to overturn Sark policies etc. but just fudged about) the unrest took off again, and has recently boomed under Macron with the Yellow Vests, part of whom are Gvmt. employees.

*Privatization* attacks on the State F-Med-Care-System have been long ongoing (if less blatant than in GB against the NHS), under the neo-lib-mantra of competition and mechanistic, Taylorist considerations about flow, flux, treatment, proper meds, etc. – aiming, it is piously said, to ‘save money’, to reduce costs to the community aka tax-payer, and providing better, more modern, streamlined, awesome!, care.

….While simultaneously stealthily augmenting costs to patients and their families, as communicated in the corridors to ‘leaders’, ‘capitalists’, the rich (investors), big Pharma, Insurance Cos., purveyors of medical machines, local potentates on the take, and many other interested parties, such as medical analysis labs, etc.

So, in fine, employees in the State Med Sector rebelling via protests, time-outs, go-slows, outright quitting, or waiting to be fired (as not-vaxed), serves the interests of those in power who are just itching to get rid of them and set up an entirely new Med system. Massive quits / no-shows will lead to shut-downs, blaming the present ‘selfish’ staff. They may be painted as basically nice ppl but jus’ sufferin’ from burn-out cos’ dreadful COV pressure, being self-deluded, too sad, they deserve our compassion, anti-vaxxers, maybe even victims of weird cults or Russian propaganda, and so on..

Alors, il faut tourner la page .. .. the page must be turned, a new era is upon us.

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