This is happened and last night I dreamed it again. Years ago, I cared for a beloved elder relative. Spiraling dementia. Heart breaking. Some in that state have the energy of toddlers they’re fast chaotic.
We were surprised that in her condition she had little need of sleep. I took shifts with my sister caring protecting watching. Till we finally got two live-in nurses. ‘Two’ and they were needed. Medicare gives that thank da G-ddess.
That's awful. But I'm afraid it doesn't surprise me. Shortening life expectancy is a convenient way to balance the books. I bet Social Security admin thinks about this a lot.
ReplyDeleteFor the moment globopsycho is running the show. But it's all theatre, and there is the possibility that we could put on our own, much better, show.
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In the west and increasing in the rest of the world. Lives are becoming longer. Despite a short western speed bump of shortened expectancies. This self-inflicted...stress bad diet etc. There are signs its already self-correcting. African expectances are increasing. This far ahead of when UNESCO thought it would.
ReplyDeleteI'm 73 alive and as healthy as a 50-year-old would have been when I was little in the 50's. I should have passed any number of times but the improved conditions keep me here. Me and my boomer cohort. My grandnieces will live into their early hundreds.
Given this as you say there are no doubt serious plans being made as to how to support a vastly larger world population. This as we seem to refuse to die the way we used to. There are all those conspiracy theories that the Rothchilds Netflix the U.N. the Vatican and the telephone company plan to reduce humanity to manageable numbers...with the exception of the ownership classes. Two Billion or so is a number I keep hearing.
Bullshit. We're just not that organized.
Reminds me of a joke. This racist said he no longer thought the Jews were behind all the mayhem on earth. This since it seemed to him The Jews was pretty organized and that they'd never do anything as fucked up and mismanaged as what's going on around us.
In my opinion the ownership classes much the same. They're fucking us to hell. 24/7/365...but still, our show would be much better. ...far more laughs.