Tuesday 20 November 2007

Why demand health eqaulity?

As I passed a shop the other day, I noticed a poster that said something like "Demand health equality for Aboriginals".

OK, that's nice. Catchy slogan, feels good and all that.

But why do we have inequality today?

Is it because we lack health facilities and health professionals (doctors, nurses) out in Woop-Woop, or is it because some people are treating themselves (and their families) badly?

The first one is easy to fix. Since these luvvie groups are righteously "demanding" that we fix the problem, I suggest we conscript doctors and nurses from those areas where there are lots of them and pack them off to Woop-Woop for a few years. Kind of like how we conscripted people into the Army during the Vietnam War. I'm sure that will be popular, and doctors and nurses won't mind being torn away from their families and inner-city clinics for a few years somewhere north of Alice Springs. We give each doctor and nurse in the inner city a number, and draw numbers out of a Lotto barrel until we have enough to do the job.

I mean, how else are we going to get people to go and work out there? We have inequality within Sydney where we have lots of GPs per head in the east and not that many per head out west. Why? Because doctors do not want to live and work out west. How keen do you think they'll be to go 2000km further west? Not much I bet.

The other cause could be people not treating themselves very well. I don't mean smoking and drinking and fighting and eating bad food. You can also get horrible health outcomes through not washing yourself properly (like having a shower), not washing your hands after having a poo, poor food hygene, not washing clothes often enough etc etc. These things lead to lice, ear infections, eye infections, gastro, skin diseases and so on.

If our problem is that some people aren't washing their kids and their carrots and their clothes often enough, then I reckon we can fix that by rounding up all the luvvies that printed these posters and shipping them off to Woop-Woop for a few years, with the express purpose of having them cook and clean and wash for these families during that time.

I'm sure they won't mind that either.

I mean for fucks sake, if some kid is getting infections because the parents are too whacked out to wash them properly, how is "demanding equal health outcomes" going to fix anything?

Boneheads.

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