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Sep 16Liked by biologyphenom

Robots? They can't even get the computers to run properly, if the NHS has anything to do with it then more time and resources will be used fixing the robots and the queues to treat humans will get longer and longer.

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Last part, you maybe onto something there.

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Here in Wales, they expect by 2030 to have shifted 'from hospital based care to community based care;.They expect to have better use of genomics and AI and to have the highest possible uptake of immunisation across all sections of the population. I think I might prefer to crawl into my death pod by that stage.

https://nicolalund.substack.com/p/another-2030-agenda

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Almost a mirror image as to what has been said in Scottish public 'health' documents.

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What a coincidence 🤨🤨

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UK Column also stated that this was throughout the UK.

But no death pod for you, this is my view is also a battle for our soul - let them shoot usor something.

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Man that image of the PAL robot is like out of some dystopian fictional sci-fi movie where it turns out the "care home" kills people in saw blades or something.

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''safe and effective'' remember. Where have we heard that before?

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Is there anything we can do to protect ethical doctors ?? ive been looking at the gmc tribunals and noted a few are to do with giving vax exemptions etc . On the surface it appears the Dr is just unfit to treat children or whatever but when you look closer you see it was a vax exeption thing or something similar. How can we help distinguish the good guys from the ones who grope patients or steal their meds ?? is it for us to just champion our own local good guys??

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Its easy to scoff, but when ATM bank machines were first suggested, the entire banking industry reacted with scepticism - they believed that people wanted a human interface. They quickly found out that people actually preferred an anonymous cash transaction - after all, its our money, and a bank is a pretty faceless corporation anyway.

Imagine that a machine could help you remain in your own home for your final years, if the alternative was a ghastly nursing home? Well, to many of us, that is a no-brainer.

I worked in elder care for two years, and I know that its rather humiliating to have a member of staff or a relative wipe your bum. Yet this is potentially an easy enough task to automate.

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17Author

When you say 'the people preferred an anonymous transaction'' was everyone asked at the time? Liklely a very small sampe size. I don't, i prefer real people, real cashiers. But banks these days are closing at a rapid place to make way for the cashless society. As for machines at home etc, that is surely a job for family etc that care and love you not a souless gov/public health controlled machine.

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Oh, it was simply observed behaviour - with a binary choice between going into a branch or a machine, most people used the machine. No, I do not want my wife, daughter or son, nor a total stranger, to wipe my bum. And as someone who has wiped a lot of bums in my time, I think that most normal people feel the same way.

Cash is just cash, its very boring, rather grubby, and most people are quite sensibly opting to go cashless - I never carry cash these days and I cannot recall the last time I used it.

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Rob, sounds like you are going to enjoy the new world being created as you are pro net zero, pro cashless society, pro A.I eventual surveillance society. I've actually used nothing but cash since 2020. It's something tangible that you can take more responsibility for vs digitial. You can also randomly donate to the homeless or buskers. Digital is what's really boring and soulless. Scanning cards at checkouts like an automaton. What about implantable microchips that store all your details would you be up for that?

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