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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: Lino... who wrote (169)11/4/2000 11:19:57 PM
From: canuck-l-head  Read Replies (1) of 37793
 
Lino... Remember reading about the fire at the Cocoanut Grove? I clipped this from a website:

"On Nov. 28, 1942, the Cocoanut Grove was crowded with revelers. Fire broke out. But except for a revolving door at the front, the exits were locked. And that door quickly jammed. Some 492 people died - many piled up by the door - in the worst fire disaster in U.S. history. The fire led to dramatic changes in fire codes (and to this day, Massachusetts fire departments are among the toughest in the country in enforcing them)."

If I recall, it wasn't that the other doors were locked, but that THEY OPENED THE WRONG WAY. The doors opened INWARD, and the panicked people just kept pushing and trampling the ones trying to get the doors open. Most people died at the exits from smoke inhalation or trampling ever before the fire got to them. Indeed, Fire Regulations for exit doors were changed so that this wouldn't happen again.

As for the "queue jumping", it has a distinct similarity to the above.

(Quoted from your link):

"Under the Canada Health Act, Canadians are only allowed to buy private MRI diagnostic scans for services that are not insured by provincial medicare plans.

It is considered a violation of medicare rules when a person who gets a doctor's referral for an MRI purchases the $800 scan privately to speed up further publicly funded treatment. "This practice can result in queue jumping for this service," Mr. Rock wrote in his Sept. 27 letter to Alberta. "It can also result in queue jumping for follow-up treatment in the public health system."

Maybe Stockwell's idea of decriminalizing (for lack of a better word) initiative isn't a bad thing before we have EVERYONE running for the exit at the same time and we all get trampled to death.

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