Charlie's Army

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[dodsi]

I'm only disappointed that you didn't call this thread 'Charlies Angels'.

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[hellkat]

I must be harder-hearted than I realised, I can't seem to get worked up over a random sick kid. I can throw my considerable weight about on behalf of the Royal Brompton being under threat of closure with the current CHD initiative but when it comes to one random kid, I'm all a bit "meh" about it.

Maybe I've not read enough bleating social media on the subject.
You know the kind, the stuff written by the kind of people who write he's instead of his.
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[Polarbear]

The trouble is nowadays people must say the 'right' thing or be vilified.

Saying that we should turn off the kids life support is not saying the 'right' thing and any newsperson/interviewer is not going to say anything that will get the howling mob on his back and probable sacking.

Ever since the 'multicultural' fiasco where if you said anything against it you were a racist it's been the loudest mob setting the standard.

I bet if you had a closed vote at least 80% of the population would say to let him die with dignity, but that 80% are not the howlers who feel they are the moral code enforcers of the country.

Social media has a lot to answer for.
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[skatefreak]

Sadly in this case it seems the 'right thing' is a weak, short sighted, knee jerk reaction that could lead to more pain and suffering for the patient only to ease the parents emotionally unstable psyche (hardly fair or reasonable).

I'm still finding it hard to get over the parents juvenile behaviour in front of the cameras, demonising the hospital , giving the impression they 'have it in for Charlie', deliberately mis-informing/mis-representing the facts to provoke outrage because it does seem, he who shout's loudest is believed by the sheeple...

WTF do these people think gives them the qualifications, experience and expertise in neurological science to be taken seriously when they are questioning the professional medical staff that have been dealing with Charlie?

Do people even stop to question this or does the act of coitus miraculously give these two decades of expertise in Charlies condition, brain damage and ethics?...

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[Johnnythefox]

I do feel so for the poor parents who passed on this genetic condition and I'm sure that they will take steps to not do so again.

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[Ribenapigeon]

[M.C]

Charlie's army has gone militant: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40691478

Wonderful

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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Why don't all of the nurses looking after him just go on strike, then the yanks can come and pick him up. At least we could stop reading about it.
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[Skudd]

if it was my kid then I would do all I could, but we are already playing God by keeping him alive, but there again I was a blue baby when I was born and needed medical help, my children were born by section so saving the children and the mother. Where do start and stop? Do we let nature take it's course? That's me gone. Do we through all medical resources at the child and see what happens? A live human lab rat?

I'm glad I don't have to choose. However if the parents want to take the child around the world funded by others why should we stop them?
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[M.C]

They don't, that's why they're keeping him drugged up just in case. The parents are f'ing idiots and don't have the child's best interest at heart, no one would want their kid to live as a vegetable.

[Ribenapigeon]

I think parental love can be very irrational and is necessarily intense. That kind of love comes with the territory but the medics also care and their desire to prevent suffering is just as real. I think what we're seeing here is a clash between the two equally important examples of humanity which sadly clash in such circumstances. Whats really sick and idiotic is the outsiders wading in to exploit the situation. They're the real arseoles in this.

[M.C]

I'm waiting to be proved right when they do the daytime telly, daily rag tour. They might have already, I have no interest in such things.

[Bricktop]

I've not been following this due to my utter disinterest in the children of strangers (My favourite memes are ones about the drowned Syrian kid).

But Something Roger said piqued my interest. Is this the same kid that the media went mental about a few years with respect to that proton treatment thing?

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