Have You Read These Stories

It is fascinating that I have written so many stories in more than a decade of time. There are literally thousands of them.

I have always written stories that I hoped a lot of people would read. Nevertheless, in doing so, I set out my point of view, and just did not write something in order to get a bunch of people to come to my website to get my reader numbers up.

My stories were designed to set out what I believed no matter what the subject was. Oh sure, I expected to have some people disagree with me but I have to admit that the number of negative comments I received from readers was quite minimal. I was very pleased about that.

My approach on this website is somewhat different than before. It is much more personal in what I'm writing. That is probably due to what happened to me a few years ago when I fortunately survived from a very severe illness. I just feel that I want to write on here what I believe is important from my own personal perspective.

Moreover, I have a special reason for wanting to produce articles for you, dear reader. Of course, I want to have a lot of people coming here to see what I have produced. However, one of my important reasons for doing so is for me to keep up my "brain power" as best that I can.

I trust that when you read my articles on here they make good sense to you, dear reader, whether you agree with my point of view or not. Just keep on coming back every time you see that I posted something. It just makes me keep on wanting to write stories not just for myself but for you too!

Now here are the latest issues that I found interesting about which I wanted you to know.

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

This matter may be relevant for you. And you might be able to put a few dollars into your bank account.

I just happened to see on Facebook that a Class Action lawsuit involving a number of computer companies as defendants was just resolved in a settlement. The Plaintiff law firm was Siskinds. Here is what they wrote on their website about this matter:

“The CRT class action relates to allegations that from between March 1995 to November 2007 the defendants unlawfully conspired to fix, increase, and/or maintain prices at which CRTs and products containing CRTs were sold in Canada.

CRTs are a form of display devices. CRTs have largely been replaced by flat panel display devices. CRTs can be divided into two main categories: CDTs (colour display tubes) and CPTs (colour picture tubes). CDTs are used in computer monitors. CPTs are used in televisions.”

The settlement amount was $49.8 million. You can go to this website to see what this matter was all about

Frankly, I think you ought to go and take a look at what this lawsuit is all about, dear reader, to see if you have a claim that can be satisfied by the settlement. I'm not going to go into the details of this because they are two types of plaintiffs that would be involved in this matter. The minimum amount that you could receive is $20. Of course, if you have better details, then you would be able to apply for more specific amounts.

I expect that there are a lot of people who can apply for a claim for equipment purchased and ought to do so as soon as possible.

A HOSPITAL STORY

This is something I did not know before--- not all of the rooms in the hospitals are open now, but I found out about this a while ago. However, since there is a serious flu issue starting now, here is what is happening:

“Windsor Regional Hospital has received one-time funding to deal with the flu season for the next two years.

The Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network is giving the hospital almost $1.7 million to open 28 more beds to increase hospital capacity when needed during a surge of the flu.” (Paul Pedro, Blackburn News, November 5, 2018) 

This is not new:

“Windsor Regional Hospital was experiencing occupancy rates of 110 per cent to 120 per cent in previous years when the flu hit.”

To be direct, it seems that the flu disease provides more proof that building a new hospital for our area makes no sense at all. Here is something that I saw on Facebook 
on February 5 that should explain it very easily:

"Philippa Von Ziegenweidt at 9:37 AM

It makes no sense to invest $2 billion in a new hospital with the same number of beds that we have today, and without FIRST addressing the critical need for MORE ALC beds.

The health care system is struggling to keep up now, with an ever-increasing patient loads expected as the babyboomer generation reaches old age. We can't afford to paper over the system's deficiencies.”

I wrote this note in a reply which explains my simple view of what is wrong with what is being suggested for a new hospital system here:

“This is the simplest and best possible reason for scrapping what is being proposed for a new hospital here!”

It is so completely absurd to spend $2 billion to build ONE new hospital here which will handle the same number of patients as our two existing hospitals here now which are to be replaced. These hospitals cannot handle the number of people coming in for assistance now. How will the new hospital handle a bigger crowd of patients in the future when population will increase?

ANOTHER ONTARIO HOSPITAL STORY

I'm not going to write another long story about this subject. It makes sense to me for you to go to this website and read the article for yourself:

“Very low hospital capacity in Ontario” 

You will learn how bad the medical situation is in Ontario:

“Ontario has fewer beds than the rest of Canada and far fewer beds than other developed countries.”

In the Windsor area alone, based on Canadian numbers, we are short about 224 beds in the three hospitals in the area. If one looked at worldwide numbers, it gets even worse:

"If Ontario had that level of capacity that would mean 66,347 hospital beds in Ontario, more than double the current number. For the three Essex hospitals, that would mean an additional 937 beds.”

Just take a look at the article, dear reader, and you will see all the problems that we have here now with respect to our medical facilities. Does anyone really expect money to be spent to improve the situation here?