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FrankGSterleJr wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:14 am Morally and ethically, the profit buck has to stop with the health and lives of human beings, especially those who have little or no voice.

FrankGSterleJr wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:14 am What I admire most about some non-Western cultures is their general belief in and practise of not placing their aged family members in long-term care homes.

As a result, there's no chance they will be caught in thus left vulnerable by cost-cutting measures taken by some care-home business owners to maximize profit.

Here in Canada, for-profit care-home neglect was present before Covid-19; however, we didn't fully comprehend the degree until the pandemic really hit, as we horrifically discovered with the CHSLD Résidence Herron in Dorval, Quebec, about 10 months ago.

Western business mentality and, by extension, collective society, allowed the well-being of our oldest family members to be decided by corporate profit-margin measures. And our governments mostly dared not intervene, perhaps because they feared being labelled as anti-business in our avidly capitalist culture.

But, as clearly evidenced by the many needless care-home resident Covid-19 deaths, big business does not always know or practice what's best for its consumers.

Morally and ethically, the profit buck has to stop with the health and lives of human beings, especially those who have little or no voice.

Impenitent wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 9:59 pm

FrankGSterleJr wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:14 am What I admire most about some non-Western cultures is their general belief in and practise of not placing their aged family members in long-term care homes.

As a result, there's no chance they will be caught in thus left vulnerable by cost-cutting measures taken by some care-home business owners to maximize profit.

Here in Canada, for-profit care-home neglect was present before Covid-19; however, we didn't fully comprehend the degree until the pandemic really hit, as we horrifically discovered with the CHSLD Résidence Herron in Dorval, Quebec, about 10 months ago.

Western business mentality and, by extension, collective society, allowed the well-being of our oldest family members to be decided by corporate profit-margin measures. And our governments mostly dared not intervene, perhaps because they feared being labelled as anti-business in our avidly capitalist culture.

But, as clearly evidenced by the many needless care-home resident Covid-19 deaths, big business does not always know or practice what's best for its consumers.

Morally and ethically, the profit buck has to stop with the health and lives of human beings, especially those who have little or no voice.

nursing home deaths? comrade cuomo should be sainted

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cuomos ... rge-pataki

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... 448747001/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ne ... e-n1256045

obey your democratic masters

-Imp

FrankGSterleJr wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:14 am What I admire most about some non-Western cultures is their general belief in and practise of not placing their aged family members in long-term care homes.

As a result, there's no chance they will be caught in thus left vulnerable by cost-cutting measures taken by some care-home business owners to maximize profit.

Here in Canada, for-profit care-home neglect was present before Covid-19; however, we didn't fully comprehend the degree until the pandemic really hit, as we horrifically discovered with the CHSLD Résidence Herron in Dorval, Quebec, about 10 months ago.

Western business mentality and, by extension, collective society, allowed the well-being of our oldest family members to be decided by corporate profit-margin measures. And our governments mostly dared not intervene, perhaps because they feared being labelled as anti-business in our avidly capitalist culture.

But, as clearly evidenced by the many needless care-home resident Covid-19 deaths, big business does not always know or practice what's best for its consumers.

Morally and ethically, the profit buck has to stop with the health and lives of human beings, especially those who have little or no voice.

Advocate wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 5:14 pm

DPMartin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 4:52 pm no, the self serving everything is for the young, culture has to change. the culture doesn't value what the elderly have or the elderly themselves.

How could the young these days be expected to take the old seriously when we live in increasingly complex times where that ancient wisdom simply does not apply? Everything is technology now and most people, far more the older ones, just don't "get it" at all.