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  • Zoning is only useful for the type of place that isn't built to keep harmful emissions confined to their land. Farms (manure smell), and some chemical industry apply and should not have housing at all. Farmers will be shocked to learn I just told them they need to move to town.

  • If you drive downtown is not the place for you. Once you figure out how to take a bus (which may not even be possible, and often is harder than it should be!) downtown can be a nice place .

  • New York has older bridge designs made of loud steel. Concrete is much quieter and what modern elevated rail systems use.

    Monorail might be slightly better for all elevated rail, but it is much worse underground and cannot run on the ground at all. Since both of those are useful at times you should buuld a regular two track train. Plus monorail is not standard so if you build one it will come down in 20-30 years when you can't fix something anymore. Meanwhile regular trains have been running more than 100 years.

  • Someone who has no heartbeat automaticlly has given consent to receive CPR.

  • That depends. If you are a professional you may be required to do more. Professional includes being on the office emergency team.

  • DNR is for the hospital staff who are legally trained and have time to figure out if it is valid. When seconds count nobody has time to check for fraudulent DNR tags.

  • Do not resuscitate tags are not something i'm trained at reading. If I see them and do CPR anyway I am protected by my states good Samaritan laws. If I see them and do nothing I could be in legal trouble! (Not anymore, but I uses to be on an emergency response team and then I was legally required to get involved). Even paramedics are trained to ignore those tags, once the patient is in the hospital there are procedures to verify if they are valid (as opposed to a murderer planting them I guess)

  • My CPR instructors put it the way I wrote it to encourage us to spend more effort on getting the AED and paramedics there fast. If you do CPR before the AED/paramedics is on the way you are wasting time, but getting those has been started CPR is important. However this is clearly semantics, I think we are all in agreement that CPR is important.

    Not all states have "good Samaritan" laws. Most do, but if you live in the exception you might suffer harassment after doing CPR, including go to court - odds are the court will throw the case out, but it will still be annoying to do the right thing in those states. Though even lacking such laws, the odds that anything will happen are low.

  • Fortunately they are cheap and easy to use correctly (and nearly impossible to use wrong), as such they are all over. If you are in a public place I'd be surprised if you didn't have ready access to a defibrillator in the US, though you may not realize where it is.

  • No. every case I've heard of is after the emergency was over someone gets the law involved. Harassment, but never a mob involved.

  • I know paramedics who got formal complaints about this. Their boss ignored as the paramedics were acting as trained.

  • This isn't about giving lifesaving procedures, this is days latter when someone realizes what happens. There is plenty or evidence that 'bad touch' happened, and so lacking good Samaritan laws the law was violated and that is all we need to arrest someone. This type of harassment has happened, but I have no idea how often it does .

  • CPR does not save lives. It preserves a dead body until an AED or ambulance can bring it back to life. You need to remove her shirt and often bra (if there is a wire it must go, otherwise only if in the way) to use an AED so if some item of clothing is in the way don't worry about removing it.

    Note that the above is generic CPR training that doesn't respect local laws which can say something different.

  • Call 911 and then follow the instructions of the operator who is trained in teaching CPR over the phone in these situations, and knows the latest. That you had training means you are more likely to understand instructions given ,and if not you were following directions of someone else.

    You need to call 911 anyway. CPR is only performed on dead people, you need an AED (or similar tools in an ambulance) to bring someone back to life.

  • There have been a lot of exceptions. However the majority of wars are longer as if you don't think you can win surrender terms are generally better than death.

  • War is normally a slow process. In historical terms Ukraine is making good progress.. it is mostly fiction where wars are one in a couple days.

  • @norbert

    Just because the unions do it does not mean it is for the mutual benefit of union members. They often have policies that are for the benefit of the worker who has been there for a long time against the younger workers. They often have policies that are against someone who wants to leave the union for a management role at some time.

  • You are putting words in my mouth that I never said. Unions as an idea are not bad. However their implementation over the years has done a number of things that are bad.