Sacha2/5/04 9:40
co.uk
mich2/5/04 9:42
"Sacha" wrote in message
. uk...
mich2/5/04 8:08
But not if you have a seriously ill, injured child, teenager, adult at
your
door, under your care. Then its potential name is death.
In *this* century most of us would hope to be able to do something to
help
such a person.
But you have made my point for me Sacha ( although I dont think its what
you are trying to do). If you have children or have to worry about injury
potential death in some way, then isolation is not a lifestyle for you , or
anyone like you.
I'm surprised you accept mains electricity, in fact. A teenager drove
into
a substation, taking out the LX for miles around but it happened to YOU.
Only YOU? What - do you suppose - it would have done to someone who was
on
a ventilator - but perhaps that's 'living' to you and what the rest of
us
would call 'dying'.
I take my chances. Its called living ( and death part of that). I am
not on a ventilator, if I were and it bothered me that much then I would
have to live where electric supplies were not so prone to being cut or
erratic. Same goes for others. if they have the need for the constant
supply, then they should either get a generator or move to a place with a
more stable supply. I have a neighbour a few miles away who doesnt have
mains electric. He has a donkey generator. Personally I prefer the comfort
of overhead mains even if it is erratic sometimes.
I am sorry if that sounds callous but it is a fact, you dont move out into
the isloated moors and then expect all mod cons and telephone and emergency
services to arrive in seven minutes.
I dont expect help from others where I live.
Anyone with half a crown's worth of common sense is going to be able to
be
in touch with the emergency services at the very least. Here, in Devon,
in
some parts of Dartmoor, people have map co-ordinates handy to give to
e.g.
fire and ambulance because people are in a panic, a state, a fury of
despair
when they have to contact such services. Imagine if they can't contact
them
at all but have to watch someone die because they're proud their mobile
'phone doesn't work....and it's all they have. Good thinking. Not.
If its going to happen it will happen. It did in the past. You expect too
much.
You keep your modern world, but dont aske me to join you. I moved here to
get away from it.
Oh dear. One can see why.
Careless of me - I should have added that one of the first criteria for
living in the country is that you help or look out for your neighbour. In a
real sense, it 'goes with the territory'. In fact, it's paramount. If those
around you adopt your attitude you will be in a very sorry state should you
be the one in need. You may well change your tune but by then we'll never
know, will we? You'll have gasped your last alone because .... everyone
will think it's 'going to happen if it's going to happen'.
I should also have said that you're living some kind of fantasy 'bugger the
rest of you' via a COMPUTER link. You think you're cut off from the rest of
the world and you're announcing this by computer?
Tell us - how many parts of Britain can offer a line via computer but not
for emergency use? Or are you pedalling VERY fast as you type?
--
Sacha
(remove the weeds to email me)