• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Though I read a story (I think on lemmy, though it’s been a while) of someone trying to meet an ambulance in the middle of nowhere (Texas, I want to say?) as their friend was bleeding out, basically.

    A lady did what you describe and it took critical time away. The friend ended up dying just before they met the emts.

    Not everyone who looks like they are a dick, are one.

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      12 days ago

      For every 1 speeder who’s trying to reach the ER in time to save their friends life, there are 10,000 deaths caused by speeding.

      Give me a break with this bullshit second hand tale. I’m not going to treat tailgaters like they are on their way to save a life. They take lives.

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        12 days ago

        This wasn’t a typical driver in an urban environment, again thus was the middle of nowhere with low traffic. They also, again, weren’t trying to reach the hospital, they were being instructed to meet medical staff halfway as the dispatcher and emts determined that was the best course of action.

        But it’s obviously that you’d rather feel morally superior than compassionate for someone trying to save a life; and you clearly have experience making these kinds of judgement calls, right? What a sad, sad person you must be.

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          11 days ago

          Oh boo hoo HOOOOOO!!

          There is no way to lane block someone on a remote rural road. If you’re racing to save a life you just fucking pass in the other lane.

          There’s no moral superiority about this. Your anecdote is just bullshit and doesn’t change the fact that driving fast and tailgating causes more accidents than it saves lives.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      If you do what the comment describes it’s fine. But if you do it to an ambulance you deserve to be shot as I do think we can all agree there is a distinct difference between any regular car and an ambulance.

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          13 days ago

          Okay but they’re not. Right? Data points by themselves aren’t data. That’s why they have a different name.

          If you look at one data point, then everyone with red hair is a billionaire because I saw one once.

        • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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          13 days ago

          Anecdotes aren’t data points either. For data points to become useful data they have to be standardised across parameters to create valid correlations. Anecdotes are not that.