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To many, the “emergency” status is related to pain tolerance.
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At the age of 86 my wife’s grandmother in Kansas (gone now, at age 103) pulled herself up basement stairs and to the front door with a broken hip to unlock it so the paramedics wouldn’t break down her door.
She saw Teddy Roosevelt give a speech from the back of a train. He completed another speech after eating a bullet.
We’re Americans. Time to shed ourselves of these expensive, uninvited weaklings.