u/foreverflyingsparrow

How much for 12 patients? And which part of the UK is that?

Controversial opinion:  There should be a Judge, appointed by the legal system, and a team of advisors, including psychiatrists, who have the power to say that if a person who has repeatedly threatened suicide actually commits suicide, there will be no scrutiny of the actions of the GP/healthcare professional who last spoke to them.  

This week I’ve dealt with a patient who has called threatening suicide once every three days on average over the last 3 months.  How many resources should we waste?  How much responsibility should we shoulder?  Even the simple consideration that someone might be at fault here is absurd.   Even worse, everything would be turned against the GP, saying that the person had cried for help so many times before, but nothing was done to prevent it.  

It also means that we can invest more time and resources in cases that merit the time and resources, and hopefully reduce the actual suicide rate, which is shockingly high.

 

It’s time for people to come together and take to the streets and demand change.  It’s time to extend an arm out to those most affected by these power outages, irrespective of political creed.  We need to help our brothers and sisters who voted for labour to find the courage and dignity to stand up for themselves, and for once put themselves, their families and their children before the country.  

The time is now. The people are angry.  Initially it will lead nowhere,  but if we keep up the pressure, we can bring about change like we did when Joseph Muscat resigned.  Soon we will have ministers resigning over the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.  We can compound the effect by making our voices heard about the incompetence, the overpopulation, the greed, the excessive construction, the complete obliteration of our quality of life. 

Imagine if a fraction of this happened in France, or in any other country for that matter, the people would not just bend over and allow the government to pass all over them.   How long will we part our ass cheeks for these crooks?  Let’s take inspiration from Albania or India and state that we are not inferior to the big businessmen, to those above the law, to their friends and their friends.  

The time is ripe.  

Malta, qum! 

Ok so let’s for the sake of this argument imagine that this incomplete bunch is replaced by honest people who knew what they’re doing. They foresee that with the population growth and climate change the electricity problem is going to keep getting worse and worse.

Supply aside, what would they have to do to improve the distribution? Does it involve digging up all the roads and changing/increasing cables over who knows how many years? Is there a better way that would cause less disruption?

EDIT: thank you for all your replies. There seems to be an emphasis on reducing our power consumption. This is simply not enough. The population is growing (we don't know how much, Robert Able and Clyde Caruana can't agree on a number, but the plan is to keep on bringing more and more people). Climate change is inevitable at this point, in 5 years we will look back at 2023 and 2026 and appreciate how cool these summers have been.

Imposing limits on personal consumption or removing subsidies is a drop in the ocean. We need to improve and future proof the distribution arm. My question is how?