The bombs failed to go off because a medical syringe malfunctioned. I don't mean it malfunctioned as a syringe (even in the crumbling NHS, the syringes usually work) but as a triggering mechanism, to which it had been adapted, though evidently not too efficiently.Mark Steyn on the relationship between Sicko and psychos.
Does government health care inevitably lead to homicidal doctors who can't wait to leap into a flaming SUV and drive it through the check-in counter? No. But government health care does lead to a dependence on medical staff imported from other countries.[snip]
When the president talks about needing immigrants to do "the jobs Americans won't do," most of us assume he means seasonal fruit pickers and the maid who turns down your hotel bed and leaves the little chocolate on it. But in the United Kingdom, the jobs Britons won't do has somehow come to encompass the medical profession. Aneurin Bevan, the socialist who created the National Health Service after the World War II, once was asked to explain how he had talked the country's doctors into agreeing to become state employees: "I stuffed their mouths with gold," he crowed. Sixty years later, no amount of gold can persuade Britons to spend their working lives in the country's dirty decrepit hospitals (they spend enough of their nonworking lives there, waiting to be seen, waiting for beds, waiting for operations).
According to a report in the British Medical Journal, white males comprise 43½ percent of the population but now contribute less than a quarter of students at U.K. medical schools. In other words, being a doctor is no longer an attractive middle-class career proposition. That's quite a monument to six decades of Michael Moore style socialist health care.
Hmm. But is the slack taken up completely by foreign nationals? What about white women? The medical profession in the US is becoming woman-dominated under the pressures of creeping socialization. I don't know what that portends, but at least not terrorism. Nevertheless, it does seem as if the jihadis could lay down their arms for a few years and then just euthanize us all in our beds:
the Glasgow jeep story symbolizes a more basic reality. The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe, and it's utterly dependent on imported staff such as Dr. Asha and Dr. Abdulla. In the West, we look on mass immigration as a testament to our generosity, to our multicultural bona fides. But it's not: A dependence on mass immigration is always a structural weakness and should be understood as such. In the socialized health systems of the Continent, aging, shrinking populations of native Europeans will spend their final years cared for by young Muslim doctors and nurses. Indeed, the NHS geriatric medicine is a field overwhelmingly dependent on immigrant staff.Given emerging Western attitudes about life, that might be a final solution for the East-West conflict?
Moving along...I've been wondering when someone was going to draw a connection between medical terrorism and sub-par products from the Chinese, and Steyn does that for me too:
Maybe their mistake was trying to blow up the airport instead of wreaking subtler havoc on the infidels. Did you see this week's scare-of-the-week from the Chinese health system? "About 420 bottles of fake blood protein, albumin, were found at hospitals in Hubei Province but none had been used to treat patients, said Liu Jinai, an official with the inspection division of the provincial food and drug administration." Well, this being China, where public lies about public health are routine, we just have to take Liu Jinai's word that "none had been used to treat patients". But imagine what Doctor Jihad could get up to if he stopped trying to use the syringe as a detonator and just used it as a syringe?Which gets back to the mass-euthanasia scenario. I'm telling you, it's win-win. We keep our decadent, child-free, sacrifice-free lifestyle just a bit longer, then they take over the world. Alas, they don't seem to have the discipline to just kill us. They seem to need us to go boom in the bargain.
