MILLENIALS – “YOU ARE PAYING FOR A MEAL PREVIOUS GENERATIONS HAVE EATEN”

@The PessChem: Dude, come the crash, there will be NO modern medicine. Trust me, as a doctor, I have had to cope with Tropical Storm Allison (when the entire Texas Medical Center went under water), and Hurricanes Ike, Rita and Katrina. The medical system is at the end of a very long and very fragile supply chain. My best guess is that we’ve got 2 maybe 3 DAYS without power and the whole thing folds up like a paper hat.

Then what? I did this analysis at one point, looking at the numbers of hospital inpatients on a given day + nursing home patients + retirement home people + disabled people + frail elderly people. It came to something like 50 million people probably dead within the week.

Then you get all the people on hemodialysis, cancer treatment, need for oxygen/nebulizers, diabetes, heart patients, solid organ transplant patients, they will all be dead within 10 days to 2 months, probably another 20 million people, conservatively.

People will probably flock to the now dysfunctional hospital for medicine, food, water, perhaps some leadership, but they will find is a house of horrors, with dead and dying patients, probably most of the staff gone to take care of their own families. (Don’t think I haven’t racked my mind and my soul over what I would do if I was in the hospital if the grid went down for good.)

We don’t need to go into the horrors of JIT food distribution system.

So, my friend, Boomer Long Pork is definitely on the menu.

Novista, I cast my first POTUS vote in 1976 for Carter. However in ’72 I canvassed for George McGovern, who I got to meet personally. I still recall McGovern fondly. He was a lot like Ron Paul…sincere, honest, genuine…exactly the same man in private that he appeared on television. He was also a war hero having piloted B-24’s out of Italy over central european targets which, especially late in the war when German artillery was concentrated as their territory shrank, was a very dangerous job.

In 1980 I voted for John Anderson and in ’84 for Reagan. In ’88 I was a minor LP official and not only voted for Dr. Paul but had dinner with him and Russell Means, both of whom were after the LP nomination (Means is one scary-ass looking dude). After my inevitable LP burnout in the nineties I got sucked into the whole lesser of evils thing and voted for both Bushes once. I don’t think I voted in 1994 (disliked Perot…his stupid followers remind me of the Tea Party today…go after the FSA but don’t touch my medicare and kill all muslims. After Dubya proved to be a lying neocon, I swore off that completely. I didn’t vote in 2004 and voted wrote in Dr. Paul in ’08.

Today I cannot say anything would have been different if Mondale, Dukakis, Gore or Kerry had won. I do have a special hatred of Gore so that may be the exception. The only thing I really had against Dukakis was his promise to hire thousands of IRS agents as his solution to the deficit.

KB, I have paid close to $150,000 in child support. I dare anyone around here to top that.

Taking care of our parents is exactly what this society used to do and needs to get back to. When my dad’s prostate cancer metasticized and was faced with the inevitability of spending his final months in a nursing home, instead I, newly divorced, moved in with him, cooked his meals and eventually cleaned his bedpan. It was not fun and he had generally treated me like shit when I was young in the most important areas, namely encouragement and emotional support. But he did keep a roof over my head and in a material sense provide more than he needed to. It was my gift that even in the end he never acknowledged. Fucker.

Given what I have paid for my children, I’d have no problem accepting their help at some point in the future, if needed.

llpoh says:

Z – you shoulda kept it in your pants, nailed it to your leg, or turned gay. It would have been a lot cheaper and much less painful.

I should have chosen a different hole to put it in. Actually I tried to do that, but she persued me and I had a hard time saying no.

One more thing, back then the best place to meet women who had their shit together was in college. I had other priorites at that time and rarely dated. Later on it was much more difficult. In the eighties, unless you were lucky, you were stuck with the mostly worthless venues of bars, weddings and church (if you were into that stuff). In this aspect, millenials (boomers too) have a much easier time now with internet dating sites.