Too often we are told “let the professionals handle it” and almost all the time, those professionals are from the Government. And most people, falling under the rubic of the Progressive “technocrat”, simply end up outsourcing their own responsibilities to The State. And in that process, truly believe that only the Government can solve the important problems.
Balderdash and propaganda! A story of some folks that saved a guy because they took back that responsibility back and put it on themselves:
In August, Jeffrey Feig, a 50-year-old financial executive in Manhattan and father of three young sons, became one of the more than 350,000 Americans who each year suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. His heart went into an erratic and ineffective rhythm and he stopped breathing. But unlike 90 percent of people similarly afflicted, Mr. Feig not only lived to tell the tale but survived his near-death experience without any damage to his heart muscle or his brain, an outcome rarely seen following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Mr. Feig owes his life and bright future to the forward thinking, planning and participation of fellow residents at Pine Lake Park, a bungalow colony in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., where he and his family spend the summer. The moment he collapsed,
fellow vacationers who had been trained at the colony in CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator, or A.E.D., sprung into action.
One person called for an ambulance, another began chest compressions, a third provided mouth-to-mouth ventilation while a fourth ran into the social hall to get the defibrillator, which was used to shock his heart back to a normal, lifesaving rhythm. Just two weeks before this incident, the colony had conducted a training and refresher course in these lifesaving measures.
If not for his lay rescuers, Mr. Feig would most likely not have survived. It took the ambulance 10 minutes to arrive; without oxygen, the brain is permanently damaged after about four minutes and death follows a few minutes later. But moments after receiving the shock from the A.E.D., which enabled his heart to again pump oxygen-rich blood to his brain and body, Mr. Feig regained consciousness.
This should carry into all other areas as well. It also shows that, much to many that believe that we must be told what has to be done and when, like blithering idiots – Government must always lead and we follow. After all, that’s the message that Progressives have been sending for decades and why we see Government intruding everywhere and where it does, it lays down law (be it actually legislated or more common, by bureaucrats sending out “guidance”) that must be obeyed.
I really like this story – spontaneous order. They took on the responsibility to get trained and then when it was called up, no govt flack was there to wave his arms like an out of control railroad sign. Each person took on a needed role and just “git’er done’d” it – the complete dismissal of the Progressive mantra that we little people can’t be 1) trusted, 2) can’t handle today’s complexities by ourselves, 3) need Govt ministrations all the time like Obama’s campaign doll, Julia.
Carol Shea-Porter and Maggie “The Red” Hassan (Democrat Progressives to the core seeking Federal office from NH) would not approve as each one TRULY believes that we cannot succeed without Government.
(H/T: Instapundit)
