Cant even express how sick and tired I am of the but they blocked an ambulance! argument. Dont pretend you give a shit about anything resembling health care access (another issue near and dear to my heart) to cover up your racist objections to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. During baseball season, ambulances are routinely prevented from reaching major Boston hospitals in an efficient manner. I wonder whether the people who are attempting to discredit the #BlackLivesMatter protest also speak out against the Red Sox and their fans for blocking traffic? One local mom, Nicole Aliberti, agrees. “I find it disingenuous that people keep complaining about ambulances not being able to get to Boston hospitals due to the protests,” Aliberti told me. “I once experienced being in the back of an ambulance that was transporting my critically ill baby in stopped traffic due to a Red Sox game. No one would move out of the way and we had to find another route to the hospital.” She asks: “Why is there outrage about the Black Lives Matter protest, when there is no outrage about this disruption of hospital traffic that happens many times a year?” A Boston medic who asked to remain anonymous confirmed this perspective: the Black Lives Matter protest is just one of many such impediments ambulances face on a regular basis. “Every response I drive, there are multiple people who impede my progress,” the medic said. “People not paying attention on their phones, those who try to out run me, the commuter rail train crossing the tracks, sporting events, concerts: This is not isolated to protests.” rebeccahains/2015/01/15/discrediting-blacklivesmatter-with-ambulance-concerns-is-disingenuous-heres-why/
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:51:58 +0000
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