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Who killed Uncle Fungus? ♠ Qui a tué Oncle Fungus ?
the dissident frogman | Mon, August 25, 2003 | Permalink | 278 hits

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Mamamontezz | 5 years ago
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United States
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08/25 2003
01:06 PM

Even in this “Evil Empire” during that bad heat wave a few years ago, we did not have nearly the per capita death rate that you are experiencing.

I’m sorry for your personal loss, and for the families of the other 9,999, but can’t help but wonder what kind of idiot designs a modern hospital without adequate environmental control?  What sort of zoning or building ordinances would allow such a thing to be built?  What Doctor would work in such a place?

I suppose that it is merely easier to be complacent and fatalistic, then to get angry about something that one could actually have changed with some involvement, politically or personally.

But France is not alone in this.  We have all manner of people who would rather curse the dark than light a candle.

Apologies for the cliche.
doc Russia | 5 years ago
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United States
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08/25 2003
03:40 PM

Condolensces to you and to Katyusha. My in-laws also hailed from the Soviet Union, and their tales of the horrors of socialized medicine are certainly cut of the same cloth as France’s disaster this season.
Guy Slater | 5 years ago
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United States
08/25 2003
04:08 PM

Frogman,

My condolences to you, your family, and most of all to your Aunt.  No matter how the rest saw him, your Aunt saw something wonderful in your Uncle.  May he rest in peace.

I also hope that more Americans read your piece on the benevolence of “the Government” before we go the way of France and Europe with socialized medicine.

Take care,

Guy
J.Mayeau | 5 years ago
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United States
08/25 2003
08:42 PM

Was wondering where you were during this crisis. Figured it was something along the lines of going door to door with a water pitcher. Or maybe tending to some death in the family.
Guillaume | 5 years ago
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France
08/26 2003
12:30 AM

Condolenes to you. I also happened to loose someone I hated in my familly, but the death of a human being is by no mean a nice thing. A concept difficult to understand for communists, that would necessarily blame the governement.

And, oh yes!, the americans. THEY are responsible for the bad weather, aren’t they? No, don’t tell me that Hadley cells have been growing on Jupiter, too, or that carbon dioxyde percentage in martian atmosphere is 80% (and that the greenhouse gaz effect is ridiculous out there). If there is a change in climate, then it HAS to be because of the americans. If you don’t want tonot take cause for consequence, or not blame your ennemy for everything with a (very) fuzzy logic, you are a rationalist, comrade. No, it is pure coincidence if in every other country in the same Hadley cell, the rate is not that high. It is the americans who polluted on purposeto avenge themselves, since we didn’t want to fight by their sides.

Lives are at stake. That’s a fact. Politicians (regarless of their political orientations), but also syndicalists, because they allowed the 35 hours or socialized medicine, are responsible. But of course, as soon as Bové is back from hollidays - or any gloomy moron that sees himself as a reliever of the poor, the exploited, the… oh yes! inventors of a criminal health care system - who do you think he is going to blame??? The americans! It’s so easier, so that every whining moron will have an identified, easy to understand, ennemy to blame.

And, suddenly, I’m shuddering when I realise that if we go back in time, exactly 70 years ago, and that we replace ‘french’ by ‘german speaking people’ and ‘americans’ by ‘jews, and anybody that doesn’t belong to the germanracial group (oh? Did I say those peoples were racists?)’, we get a feeling of déjà vu.
John | 5 years ago
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United States
08/26 2003
06:30 AM

When I was young my mother used to tell me that God would heap on my head what I whished on others. Not too long ago the French were giddy with the mere notion that “10,000’s of US soldiers would die at the hands of Saddam. When this didn’t happen they were sad. Then one US soldier a day was killed in Iraq, again, glee and jubilation at our misfortune. Well, God has heaped on the French heads exactly what they wished to happen to the US. I do believe it is punishment from God.
Guillaume | 5 years ago
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France
08/26 2003
08:57 AM

Personally, I have no need for god: this is what happens when people prefer to look afar so that they don’t see the problems they have: this doesn’t solve the problem, but at least they believee they’re not responsible when something happens. This is pure logic.

I find your comment rather unfair: France is not full of criminal morons, only those morons control the media, that’s why they’re the only ones who have a voice. Anyway, that’s what I think. But I’m sure that among the people who died, there were people who certainly didn’t wish for those American deaths. Most of them were old, and most likely witnessed France’s liberation, and hence were among the most thankful. Would god have punished the wrong guys? I wouldn’t believe in such a god.

Those deaths are human matters: it is because in France, those who decide don’t use god’s gift, namely reason. This is why France sucks, and why America will always be a better place (since those who think are given a chance to prove they can do it in a better way). If you don’t use reason, then you are a murderer. No god took this decision. Humans did.
Steve | 5 years ago
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United States
08/26 2003
08:59 AM

My condolonces, sir.  My mother and grandmother fled that Soviet “paradise” (and not all that long ago - 24 years, in fact), so I can sympathize with your descriptions of the horrors of Socialism.
Fred | 5 years ago
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France
08/26 2003
09:16 AM

Peut être Oncle Fungus n’etait pas un modéle de bonté ou d’humanité toutefois , bien que malade , il ne meritait pas de mourir dans la souffrance et de maniére indecente en occurrence a cause d’une vague de chaleur et parce que le “meilleur systeme de soin au monde “ selon l’Oms , n’a pas été capable d’assurer , ou encore a cause d’un gouvernement qui estime que c’est la faute au temps..................

Dans tous les cas je pense que la ou il est a t’il trouvé la paix de l’esprit et de l’âme......

Reçois mes condoleances sinceres a toi et a tes gens :(
the dissident frogman | 5 years ago
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08/26 2003
02:22 PM
Comment 588

Hmm, don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I hated Uncle Fungus (Cousin Zeke did), it’s just that I had less affection for him than for other members of the clan.

That said, there’s a significant difference between not liking your Uncle and not caring when he’s being mistreated.

He’s part of the clan, above all.
Mary in LA | 5 years ago
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United States
08/26 2003
03:34 PM

I am very sad to hear of the death of your uncle, and of the circumstances surrounding his death.  Thank you for telling us the story.  Please accept my sincere condolences.
ErikZ | 5 years ago
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United States
08/27 2003
05:18 PM

Also, my sympathies.

One question though, are the surgery rooms not air conditioned either? They have hot lights, and I would think that having a surgeon as confortable as possible (not distracted by heat) is important.
SteveJ | 5 years ago
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United States
08/29 2003
08:46 AM

I showed your article to my wife, a nurse with 20 years clinical experience, and her comment was “ There are about 10 different things in that story that would get my, or the hospitals, credentials revoked.”

Of course that is in the “Bastion of all that is Violent, Crass and Not Nice” hereafter known as America, for brevity’s sake.

I’m not naive enough to think that that the American health system is perfect, but your sad story only hardens my belief that further socializing the healthcare system in the U.S. is clearlynotthe answer.

You have my deepest sympathies on the death of your uncle.  :-(
harvey | 4 years, 8 months ago
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United States
12/11 2003
09:45 PM

hi there,

deepest sympathy,and i couln<t agree more with what you said about that wonderfull ubbernice health system, I am a french born canadian and had to experience the treatement hospital people gave to my grandfather some years ago.

these are underpaid, ignorant nurse asisstants and they know shit, i saw them doing so i don’t have any problem imagining what it mus have been like.
nina | 4 years, 1 month ago
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United States
07/24 2004
10:05 AM

who is uncle fungus?
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