Mental Health is Too Expensive, But What a Great Dental Plan!
You can be a deranged psycho killer with great teeth because for starters, mental health is way too expensive, but hell, your insurance has a great dental plan. Some man in China wounded 22 children and one adult in a stabbing attack. The New York Times reads, "No motive was given for the attack, which resembled a string of similar assaults against Chinese schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in August, when a man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing. Most of the attackers have been mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change in China, underscoring grave weaknesses in the antiquated Chinese medical system’s ability to diagnose and treat psychiatric illness."
What do we have to do in order to keep our kids safe? Do we need to have a military type of security at the doors of every single school? Great. Taxes go up. Do we have to homeschool our children? It. does. not. matter. If a killer wants to seek revenge, there are plenty of places where they can unleash their fury. I remember a while back when I was working for a phone and internet company where a man got so irate over his phone being turned off due to unpaid bills, that he threatened to come to our office and kill every one of us. He did come in...with a box cutter and threatened the receptionist. He wanted her to open the doors that led into the call center, where a hundred or more reps were sitting in their cubicles doing their work. I always had a "disgruntled employee plan" --- I'd turn the overhead lights off, shut my computer down and crawl under the desk and pull my chair in so it looks like no one is there. I'm not sure if it would work, but running wouldn't. Thankfully, security had to tackle the man down and restrain him until the police came to pick him up.
The world's gone mad. This has never happened so frequently --- or at all for that matter. And now, with social media and the internet giving more ways and techniques on how to kill more effectively, it gives them more ammunition, more plans, more avenues... We're screwed as a society. I will never, ever have a child in this world. I would never want to bring up my kid in a world that is absolutely nuts -- where mental health is not a "serious medical reason" for insurance to pay for. Who has $200 to sit in a psychiatrist's office or even pay for the necessary medications that are way too much for the average budget? Most of these madmen are usually sitting in their mothers' basements plotting huge killing sprees and perhaps a few pipe bombs. When is it going to end? When will the government, the medical insurances - the world figure out that - YES - mental health IS important. It's important because not only will it help someone you love with a mental illness, but it may just save your own child or yourself from being murdered by someone untreated. I wouldn't mind of the Mayans are correct. I'm ready to blow this popsicle stand.
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