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Jun 28, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Real classy, same as here. A few hundred ukrainians are blamed for endemic problems. If they were going to blame migranst, howabout looking to the groups coming from a bit further south and east than Ukraine, hm? It's the same hypocrisy here: the "anti-racisists" are blaming ukrainian refugees for "drawing away attention from the plight of non-whites being subjected to colonial looks" and similar expletive-expletive-profanity-pejorative.

It is also the same here re: staffing, especially in summer though the daily bombings and weekly shootings does put real pressure on the health services. And those shootings and bombings are 100% due to letting middle easterners and africans across the border.

At the very prominent Akademiska Sjukhuset in Uppsala, it is now so bad patients are put in hallways and are given lids from the kitchen pots and pans, to use as alarm to summon a nurse. And we are still loosing staff to Norway since working conditions and pay is so much better there.

Personal anecdote: stepped on a rusty nail yesterday and thought I'd might as well top up the tetanus shot, it being more than 20 years since the last one. So I called the regular cases secretary to set up a drop-in appointment since I didn't need any procedure, took care of the hole in the foot with Salubrin (a mix of water, alcohol and acetic acid in case you haven't heard about it - kills most anything). A recording informs me that due to it being summer, people are on vacation so no-one can answer the phone.

Which meant going to the ER, explaining why to the nurse on call, waiting for her to go get the syringe, get the shot and go home.

Now, this area is very tourist dependent. In many outlying villages population quintuples during summer holidays/vacation. And at the same time all staff at societal functions are given leave.

It's stupid enough to make you bite through your teeth in frustration.

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