The NHS

[greygoose]

You've probably heard this before, but I thought it was rather good.

[Marz]

Absolutely brilliant and timely. His autobiography has just been read by Hubby and is waiting for me to finish my current book.

I listened to him speak at one of the Lent Lectures in Truro Cathedral. He spoke without notes for god knows how long ? The Cathedral was packed. The comment I remember most - was that governments love unemployment as it gives them more control !

[humanbean in reply to Marz]

Loved it. Thanks for posting, greygoose.

Marz, what governments love is having a frightened population. Unemployed people are scared about their own survival and the survival of their families, and employed people are scared of becoming unemployed. Frightened populations are easier to manipulate than confident people.

All sorts of things can be used to frighten people - it's a good idea for the government to have a few things up its sleeves because different things frighten different groups of people :

1) Crime.

2) Immigration.

3) Pensions (losing them or them being too small to survive on).

4) The EU.

5) War.

6) Terrorists - home grown or from abroad.

7) Sickness.

Frighten enough people and you can remove freedoms and rights (because, for example, terrorists with freedoms and rights could hide and could hurt us), and introduce huge scale surveillance via CCTV and the internet, to make people feel "safe" and to "protect" them. The main winners of this, of course, are the government and big business.

All it needs to help the process along is a media which will try and make money by having a new scandal every day, and a new bogeyman to be scared of every day, so that people will buy their magazines and newspapers, and watch their TV shows. Fear sells, so the media sells lots of it.

[Marz in reply to humanbean]

...well my biggest fear is being put into a Care Home in the UK where they won't have a clue about my thyroid medication - I won't be able to get T3 - B12 jabs - lashings of VitC - sheeps yogurt - sunlight - have a swim - Greek salad with Mizithra and no visitors.

I will be so far gone without the correct medication that I will become unrecognisable in my purple PJ's on my zimmer frame. Have carefully omitted the incontinence pads as of course I will still be practising yoga - possibly outside in the rain as I will have forgotten I no longer live in Crete

So come on fellow thyroid sufferers it's time we bought a hotel by the sea - used it as a Residential Conference/Training Centre for Thyroid and all its allied conditions. Mostly offering training for GP's and Endocrinologists. Also a place for short term or respite care - just to give my Hubby a break from all the information I feel he should know about HIS Hashimotos. Then as it develops it can become a Home for the Terminally Bewildered Thyroid Sufferers. Just like the Chelsea Pensioners and all those other professions that have beautiful places for their employees when they can no longer live alone.

Just remember I am not a medic - just a retiree in Crete with a wild imagination and a desire to make the world a better place by enhancing our health

[greygoose in reply to Marz]

Sounds like a plan, to me!

[nightingale-56 in reply to Marz]

Marz, What a lovely thought. Is it too far out of the rounds of possibility to happen though. I have to admit the thought of not being able to have all the extra vits and mins etc., that we need to keep us on an even keel is the most frightening for me, especially as I have to look out for my special needs son as well and wonder what will happen when I am no longer here. That thought has been fairly close lately, but I am pleased to say I seem to have turned a bit of a corner in the last few days.

[Marz in reply to nightingale-56]

...good to hear you are feeling stronger

Will see you in the lift then ! - I will be the lady wearing purple and rattling her cane along the railings - or however the poem goes !

[nightingale-56]

I shall look out for you Marz! Wish I was in the sun with you now.

[greygoose in reply to nightingale-56]

You and me both!!!

[Clutter]

GG, I've not seen it before, it's brilliant, thanks for posting

[greygoose in reply to Clutter]

You're welcome.

[Hidden]

Excellent post grey!

More's the pity that we're lacking in politicians of his calibre.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Thank you, CG.