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New Zealand police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC:
The men were arrested after allegedly trying to flee from police near the Auckland border. When their car was searched, police said they found a large quantity of KFC, as well as the cash and a number of empty ounce bags.
The arrest struck a chord with New Zealanders – especially Aucklanders, who have spent a month in a strict level four lockdown that does not allow restaurants to open or residents to order takeaway food.
[...] After the KFC arrest, a police spokesperson said “officers noticed a suspicious looking vehicle travelling on a gravel road, and upon seeing the police car, the vehicle did a U-turn and sped off trying to evade police.
[...] A breach of the Covid-19 Public Health Response Act can result in imprisonment for up to six months; or a fine of up to $4,000.
The men will appear in court for breaching the health order, and police said further charges were likely.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:07AM (2 children)
Your brother AC is on target. Those headlines have been in the news for most of my adult life. In one year, it's New York and NYC, the next year it's Cali and LA, and another year it's all of the central midwest, then maybe it's back to New York, and the following year it's the southeast.
The fact is, hospital bed availability has been decreasing in the US for AT LEAST 40 years. The number of medical professionals has been dropping as well. The only thing that increased for some years, were EMT services, but I think those have flattened, and maybe have began decreasing.
Every crisis, great or small has strained the system, for three decades or more. Hurricanes, tornados, forest fires, airliner crash, massive automotive pileups, train derailment, factory explosion, you name it - it becomes a health care crisis. Patients are shuffled from one hospital to another, with less serious injuries being transported 100s of miles, to leave room close at hand for those who won't survive that transport.
As an experiment you might do some Google searches, playing with the dates. Search for stories prior to 1980 about hospital bed shortages, then increment your search forward in time, one decade at a time. (keep in mind that internet search results get better with every decade advance - lots of news prior to 1990 has never been archived on the internet)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @03:24AM
Don't forget that the AMA keeps a cap on things like medical student numbers per faculty, thereby reducing new entrants to the profession, while more and more senior members exit early, or divert into specialty fields which mean that their involvement in general practice drops.
It's textbook rent-seeking behaviour, with the approval of the government.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 22 2021, @02:14PM
Well that explains why it's worldwide.