{"id":156692,"date":"2024-05-15T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=156692"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T19:22:23","slug":"deprivation-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156692","title":{"rendered":"Deprivation Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, we all deal with it in different ways. I will admit, though, that I have rarely seen folks who are selflessly sacrificing their health and well-being in a ‘good’ cause – well, WHINE so much.<\/p>\n

Students at Princeton University protesting Israel\u2019s war with Hamas in Gaza have called an end to their hunger strike after just 10 days.<\/p>\n

“Due to health concerns of the 13 strikers who fasted for 10 days, the first hunger strike wave ended, and the second wave has begun,” it wrote in a post shared on Instagram.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am sure Mahatma Ghandi is chuckling to himself. 10 whole days?\u00a0 What else ya got? Nothin’?<\/p>\n

Students at the university are not the only ones who went without food since an encampment formed on the campus to protest Israel\u2019s military campaign to eradicate Hamas, as faculty apparently participated in a 24-hour hunger strike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the selfless faculty. 24 hours? That’s not a hunger strike, that’s a DIET plan.<\/p>\n

Ads you can imagine, comments are somewhat less than supportive:<\/p>\n

“I am commencing a hunger strike between now and breakfast. Estimated duration of hunger strike: 10 hours. Join me. Be strong,”<\/p>\n

“I do 3\/4 of a Princeton faculty hunger strike EVERY DAY!”\u00a0 Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Think the protesters of the ’60s were sterner stuff? How about Dick Gregory, the first real socially integrated black stand-up comic turned political activist? (For you youngsters, he paved the way for Richard Pryor and the rest.)<\/p>\n

Hunger strikes were a frequent activist tool for Gregory. He told Juan Williams on Talk of the Nation<\/em> that he went without solid food for two and a half years to protest the war in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

At one point, he said he weighed 365 pounds. But he lost a lot of weight fasting to protest the war. “I went on a fast, 40 days of water. Forty days of fruit juice. Forty days of fruit. And then 40 days of water again,” Gregory told NPR.<\/p>\n

NPR<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, 10 days…<\/p>\n

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But at least California has come up with a program for homeless alcoholics… free booze. $10,000,000 worth, apparently.<\/p>\n

The “Managed Alcohol Program” operated by San Francisco’s Department of Public Health serves regimented doses of alcohol to voluntary participants with alcohol addiction in an effort to keep the homeless off the streets and relieve the city’s emergency services. Experts say the program can save or extend lives, but critics wonder if the government would be better off funding treatment and sobriety programs instead.<\/p>\n

“By prescribing limited quantities of alcohol, the model aims to prevent potentially life-threatening effects of alcohol withdrawal, such as seizures and injuries.”<\/p>\n

“Our goal at MAP is not to decrease the amount of alcohol that is consumed, or to taper someone towards abstinence, although both of these things have happened with clients in our program,” she said in the October presentation. “The goal is to mitigate the many health, legal and interpersonal harms associated with unsafe alcohol use.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be honest, there are some people you cannot wean, and medically\u00a0 I guess keeping them from medically crashing\u00a0 and burning is something. But $5,000,000 a year?\u00a0 Cheap bourbon is what, $40 a gallon?<\/p>\n

San Francisco health officials say the program has saved $1.7 million over six months in reduced hospital visits and police calls made by participants who previously heavily relied on emergency services.<\/p>\n

Still, the program has also received criticism from none other than San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who said in February that harm reduction was “not reducing harm” but “making things far worse.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n

So they are saving $3.4 mill ($1.7 mill twice) by spending $5,000,000 a year.\u00a0 That, to me, is California in a nutshell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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