It isn't about helping you, it is about controlling you.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/11/04/uk-national-health-service-to-deny-treatment-for-racist-or-sexist-language-gestures-behaviour/

They just want you to fall in line...

UK: National Health Service to Deny Treatment for ‘Racist or Sexist Language, Gestures, Behaviour’

Isabel Infantes/AFP

2:58

A National Health Service (NHS) trust has announced that it will withdraw treatment from patients it deems to be racist or sexist.

The North Bristol NHS Trust announced that patients will be subject a “sports-style disciplinary yellow card and then final red card in which treatment would be withdrawn as soon as is safe” on its official website.

The policy would cover not just “Threatening and offensive language” but also “Racist or sexist language, gestures or behaviour” more generally, as well as “malicious allegations” — a rather troubling caveat, given the NHS has in the past been entangled in large-scale malpractice scandals which hospitals and staff have initially denied.

“We have staff from many different backgrounds, from all over the world, and we pride ourselves on our commitment to equality which is a fundamental value of the NHS,” commented Andrea Young, Chief Executive for North Bristol NHS Trust.

“We’re sending a strong signal that any racism or discrimination is completely unacceptable – we want staff to challenge and report it and we want everyone to know that it will have consequences.”

How low the bar for deeming behaviour discriminatory and sufficiently “offensive” to withdraw treatment is not spelled out in explicit terms.

For example, in late 2017 an NHS patient who requested a female nurse to carry out a cervical smear complained when the hospital sent a person with “an obviously male appearance… close-cropped hair, a male facial appearance and voice, large number of tattoos and facial stubble” who insisted “My gender is not male. I’m a transsexual”.

It is not clear whether the patient could have fallen foul of the Bristol policy had it been in place and the nurse had chosen to take offence — and nor is it clear how far the trust’s assurances that it will only withdraw treatment once clinically safe extend, and if patients could, for example, be denied diagnostic procedures or so-called routine operations such as hip replacements, for which many patients have to wait eight months or more.

British state authorities have previously proved somewhat overzealous in their enforcement of political correctness, with foster parents caring for three “not indigenous White British” children having them taken away by Labour-run Rotherham Borough Council in 2012 because they were members of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), then led by Nigel Farage.

Strategic Director of Children and Young People’s Services Joyce Thacker said she was concerned that UKIP was opposed to mass immigration and the “active promotion of multiculturalism”, meaning UKIP members could not meet non-British children’s “cultural and ethnic needs”.

Another NHS trust for the area, the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, has previously been criticised for ordering the removal of the British flag from security staff stab vests after someone complained that the country’s national banner was “offensive”.

Borrowed time...

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/multiple-myeloma/detection-diagnosis-staging/survival-rates.html

Survival Rates by Stage for Multiple Myeloma

Survival rates tell you what percentage of people with the same type and stage of cancer are still alive a certain amount of time (usually 5 years) after they were diagnosed. They can’t tell you how long you will live, but they may help give you a better understanding about how likely it is that your treatment will be successful. Some people will want to know the survival rates for their cancer, and some people won’t.

What is a 5-year survival rate?

Statistics on the outlook for a certain type of cancer are often given as 5-year survival rates. The 5-year survival rate is the percentage of people who live at least 5 years after being diagnosed with cancer. For example, a 5-year survival rate of 90% means that an estimated 90 out of 100 people who have that cancer are still alive 5 years after being diagnosed. Keep in mind, however, that many of these people live much longer than 5 years after diagnosis.

Remember that all survival rates are estimates – your outlook can vary based on a number of factors specific to you.

Survival rates don’t tell the whole story

Survival rates are often based on previous outcomes of large numbers of people who had the disease, but they can’t predict what will happen in any particular person’s case. There are a number of limitations to remember:

The numbers below are among the most current available. But to get 5-year survival rates, doctors have to look at people who were treated at least 5 years ago. As treatments are improving over time, people who are now being diagnosed with multiple myeloma may have a better outlook than these statistics show.
These statistics are based on when the cancer was first diagnosed. They do not apply to cancers that later come back or spread, for example.
The outlook for people with multiple myeloma varies by the stage (extent) of the cancer – in general, the survival rates are higher for people with earlier stage cancers. But other factors can also affect a person’s outlook, such as their age and overall health, and how well the cancer responds to treatment. The outlook for each person is specific to his or her circumstances.

Your doctor can tell you how these numbers apply to you.

Survival rates for multiple myeloma

Remember, these survival rates are only estimates – they can’t predict what will happen to any individual person. We understand that these statistics can be confusing and may lead you to have more questions. Talk to your doctor to better understand your specific situation.

The numbers below are the approximate median survival using the Revised International Staging System of just over 3,000 myeloma patients treated between 2005 and 2012. These survival times are measured from the point that treatment, such as chemotherapy, first started. Since 2000 the percent of patients living five years after diagnosis has been increasing. Treatment since then has improved considerably and modern survival results are likely to be better.

Revised International Staging System	Median Survival
Stage I	Has not been reached
Stage II	83 months
Stage III	43 months

Boys / Girls sports...

https://www.disrn.com/2019/10/14/opinion-the-coming-collision-of-feminism-and-transgenderism/

For decades, girls have wanted into boys sports - baseball, soccer, football - even if they had a league of their own... and that was considered good.
Now boys (cosmetically altered) want in girls sports... and that is considered bad.

Why?

Opinion: The coming collision of feminism and transgenderism

Peter HeckOctober 14, 2019, 4:04 pm

There are two powerful political entities on the left that are on a collision course. Their paths have already begun to cross, and the impending armageddon is just moments away. Simply put, feminism and transgenderism cannot coexist.

Feminism, by its very definition, seeks the betterment, promotion, and advancement of femininity and the female sex.

Transgenderism, by its very definition, seeks to obscure, blur, and eventually eliminate all boundaries of sex and gender.

How anyone can think that those two positions are compatible defies common sense. To this point, the groups were united under the banner of progressivism because they had a shared enemy. Conservatism was seen as patriarchal, antiquated, and too resistant to change. Feminists and transgender activists happily tag-teamed to undermine the popularity and diminish the influence of conservative thought in the culture.

But the thing about revolutionaries is that they will always, when given enough time, turn on one another. And that’s particularly true when the philosophical foundations of the two revolutionaries in question are so diametrically opposed.

You could see this coming not that long ago when tennis star Martina Navratilova, a pioneering icon of the gay rights movement, was booted from her spokeswoman gig for an LGBT organization because she acknowledged that biological men who are psychologically convinced they are women should not be allowed to participate in women’s athletic events.

Navratilova logically reasoned that regardless of their state of mind, a man’s body is equipped with a sturdier skeletal and stronger muscular structure, thus giving them an unfair physical advantage that undergirds the entire concept of having divisions between men and women sports to begin with.

Then came former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies who was accused by the LGBT movement of “fueling hate” by tweeting,

“I believe there is a fundamental difference between the binary sex u r born with & the gender u may identify as. To protect women’s sport those with a male sex advantage should not be able 2 compete in women’s sport.”

And now, 16-year-old track phenom Selina Soule has taken up the cause of common sense after failing to qualify for regionals after being bumped out by two biological males.

“I’ve lost opportunities to compete at world-class tracks,” Selina said. “I’ve lost opportunities to compete in front of college coaches and gain attention, and I’ve lost opportunities to win titles.

I know that I’m not the only girl who has missed out on opportunities. There are countless other girls who have lost meets, and titles, and their drive to compete as hard as they can because they know that they’ll never be good enough to compete against these athletes.”

At some point soon, society is going to have to acknowledge this argument and settle it. Will there continue to be women’s sports? Will there be women’s world records, women’s tees, women’s gold medals, and women’s divisions? Or will science and common sense take a back seat to this latest manifestation of mankind’s rebellion to God’s moral order?

If it’s the latter, let’s be clear it isn’t just Christians and conservatives who are going to be thrown under the bus. We’ll have to make room for the feminists to join us.

Between Disney and Kathleen Kennedy, SW #9 will just suck.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/03/why-the-star-wars-franchises-decline-is-a-true-loss-for-american-culture/

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Doner side politics vs. voter side politics.

They are different, Democrats in blue areas excell at the first, never having to do another thing after that... no hard door to door handshaking or county fair appearances. That is why they are shocked at the state of some of their cities - they have never been required to go there for votes.

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