Italian town bans residents from falling sick
Italian town bans residents from falling sick
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Italian town bans residents from falling sick
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Do even English people say "I've fallen sick"? Sounds so dramatic.
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"I've fallen ill" is a common expression in the UK. "Fallen sick" would be a little unusual
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Down with the sickness.
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Some cultures even use the phrase "fallen pregnant".
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"Take two spoonfuls 🤌 of Extra Virgin Olive Oil 👋 with your daily lasagna. 👐You'll be right as rain.👌"
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Many great doctors, the best healers, say to inject Tide Pods, many have said it, it's true, it washes and cleans the blood right up.
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I'm not that surprised. If you live in a rural area, you aren't going to get the services of a city. Hospital care is part of that.
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The mayor says that it's because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).
US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.
Well, that'd require us to stop being a 3rd world country. GDP aside more than 1 in 10 Americans live in relative poverty.
There are few effective social programs and a very authoritarian power structure even before the incoming clusterfuck.
Italy's population density is twice that of the US.
“This is not just a provocation, the ordinance is a cry for help, a way to shine a spotlight on an unacceptable situation,” Mr Torchia told local news outlet Corriere della Calabria.