• grue@lemmy.worldOP
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    21 hours ago

    My intention is definitely “fuck cars.” The fucked-up thing here is that even ambulance drivers, who should know better more so than almost anybody, are incompetently right-hooking cyclists. Billing him for it is merely the icing on the shit-cake.

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      21 hours ago

      A lot of EMTs work 24-hour shifts, and 48-hour shifts are not uncommon. The thought that the ambulance driver on the road next to me might be at hour 46 is… frequently worrying.

      The problem isn’t the EMTs being incompetent, the problem is with the industry standards and the employers.

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        I was forced to work a few 24+ hour shifts in healthcare and working on zero sleep fucked me up. It gave me migraines, vomiting, insomnia, manic depression and I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.

        It is beyond cruel and inhumane that employers can force people to work without sleep. It is so fucked that not allowing someone to sleep is considered a form of torture by the Geneva convention.

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      17 hours ago

      So your alternative would be that ambulances should no longer use cars? From my perspective all kind of emergency services such as fire department, law enforcement, ambulances should be the very last cars we get rid of as a society. They have to be fast and they need to transport a lot of stuff and people.

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          The rest of the world does without GIANT and dangerous emergency vehicles for one.

          Could you show me those small and safe emergency vehicles that are used outside the USA? Because I’m outside the USA, I literally live near a firefighter station, and they’re all probably as big as US vehicles.

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          7 hours ago

          Any vehicle large enough to carry the necessary equipment and people for emergency services is going to be dangerous to pedestrians. Not sure what you’re trying to prove here.

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            6 hours ago

            Tell me youve never been in another country without telling me youve never been in another country.

            Ambulances and firetrucks in Europe and Asia are smaller than most american pickup trucks.

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              I agree that the US have way too many way too big trucks but this…

              Ambulances and firetrucks in Europe and Asia are smaller than most american pickup trucks.

              … is just wrong. I live in Germany and even small villages with only volunteer firefighters have full blown trucks way above 10 tons.

              Most fire departments have something like this:

              MAN TGM 18.330 Tank with 4,000 litres of water 18 tons total weight

              More specialized departments close to industrial facilities, airports can be also much bigger. This one is currently the biggest weighting 52 tons.

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                Weight doesn’t matter in this context? US firetrucks are almost a meter wider than german ones. A german firetruck is only about half a meter wider than a Ford F450.

                And also firetrucks in US are first responders, they go before ambulances for most emergencies.

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                Here in 'Murrica, they send something like in the second photo when grandma falls in the bathroom.

                Yes, I’m exaggerating, but not by much. The truck in the first photo is smaller than the trucks my city fire department has. There’s a retirement community not far from where I live, and they send a ladder truck for medical emergencies there several times a week. I’m not really sure what use 4,000 liters of water would be when somebody is having a stroke.

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              Unless they have some sort of advanced materials science in other countries we don’t know about here in the US that makes them as light as cardboard, I’d bet my year’s salary you wouldn’t volunteer to let one hit you.

              And yes, I have been out of the US. Shall I tell you what we say about those who “assume” things over here?

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                6 hours ago

                Clearly you didnt watch the video, because you couldn’t be more wrong. This is uniquely a north american thing

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                    North america is the only place where the trucks are this wide, and where the firedept has the power to regulate the size of infrastructure (and where bike lanes can be) for their increasingly large trucks.

                    But don’t watch the video or anything, keep arguing your ignorance.

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          Fun fact, many if not most of those ambulances are made in Canada, and not the USA.