Hello beautiful souls!
So, I woke up this morning with nothing to do. Work has been cancelled, and this is the third day that I am relegated to my apartment because of "Snowpocalypse 2009" (according to the media hype). So of course, I wake up, call home to wish my little brother a Happy Birthday (he's seven!), and grab my laptop. Why not see what is happening in the world-at-large?
I check my email, and see some messages from friends, some spam, and some things in between. All of a sudden, a headline (from one of the many news sources deposited to my inbox daily) catches my eye. I click it in disbelief, hoping there is more to the story, and I get to this link: Headline: EMTs On Break Allow a Pregnant Woman To Die.
SERIOUSLY? The basic rundown of the story is that a pregnant woman started to have seizures in an Au Bon Pain in Brooklyn. There were two EMTs there buying breakfast who refused to help because they were "on break." They told the employees to just call 911. The Au Bon Pain was in the same building as the Fire Department HQ. So even if the EMTs didn't want to help, they could have easily found someone qualified to do so.
To me, this is extremely ridiculous. Being on break is fine and all, but you are an EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN. This was a medical emergency. This woman and her baby are DEAD, and her 4 year old son is now without a mother. How DARE you even THINK that you are allowed to turn your back on her!? Where is your human decency? And then the two EMTs get paid, but restricted leave. REALLY? They get a paid vacation for allowing a woman to die because they wanted breakfast? What a joke.
This is insane, and I am more than outraged. Americans are SOME OF the only people whose leisure time matters more to them than another human life. And that is just said. I'm too disgusted with this...
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