No kidding — I was just going to say the same thing. We’re about to have this start happening right in front of our eyes (and already do with all the baby-killing) and we still have the chance to stop it. What was done in war is done. Some people need to be perpetual victims and live in the past of 70+ years ago.
We live in a country where leftist policies have impacted the mentally ill and mentally retarded for over 30 years.
Safe facilities where these people were boarded were closed. Although some were not good places, many were.
The mentally ill and mentally retarded were boarded, fed, given minimal healthcare, kept clean, and kept from being prey or preying upon the populace.
Families of the mentally ill or mentally retarded were no longer attempting to manage psychotic violent and vulnerable relatives.
Today the mentally ill and mentally retarded are loose in the streets. They are expected to follow medication regimes that they dislike and often run from. They are expected to manage the outside world when they cannot and they, if they are lucky, end up in homeless shelters that provide a dite of the care that was once provided at the local state hospitals.
The patient right laws do not permit less than the fullest freedoms and one has to flunk the test a lot in order to curtail the freedom of a mentally ill patient with continuous poor judgment.
Right now near you there are patients coming into hospitals nationwide, who are horrifically beaten because of their behaviors, who are filled with lice and bites because of their poor judgment, who are fantastically psychotic because they need a protective boundary to be able to continue to be medicated.
We no longer provide the care for the people that our forefathers thought was the basis of human compassion and charity.
Instead we have a government with out of control rules. It is heartbreaking. What is more heartbreaking is to see families whose hands are tied as their beloved child or spouse becomes increasingly insane and hurt.
My fear, that the leftist blob cannot go back to congregant custodial care. That instead, the blob will talk itself into mercy-killing these poor souls. Because they will make it a choice and an attractive option. It will fit the mindset of the intellectuals as we move in that direction as these self same intellectuals debate life and death and who gets to live and who gets to die.
It will not be pretty. But it will be logical. German doctors who killed numerous of the mentally ill and mentally retarded all had logical reasons to kill them. Reasons these educated people believed.
I guess we just may party like it is 1932 all over again.
What have we come to?
I don’t see that the point of the research or the article is to denounce any particular nurses in the past, but to learn that it can happen again. Fore warned is fore armed.