DJ Calvert needs help to get showered and dressed but his carer is withdrawn over a funding shortage.

DJ Calvert told BBC News NI: “I’ve been let down - and I’m not the only one.”

It was proof that Northern Ireland’s health and social care system had “crashed”, said the 49-year-old.

  • davidgro@lemmy.world
    511·
    2 years ago

    I read the headline thinking ‘so what else is new’ and then realized they weren’t talking about the US. Here it wouldn’t be news at all.

    • Arrakis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      25·
      2 years ago

      Over the past while, our government has essentially turned our welfare system into a parody of the US’s. This guy makes the most amazing Lego sculptures, and it’s so fucking sad he’s going through this.

            • The Bard in GreenA
              3·
              2 years ago

              Yep.

              I had a construction worker try to explain to me how Elon Musk is a genius who makes it possible for me to do my job (I work in the Space Industry, NOT for SpaceX) and I should be grateful he’s creating those opportunities for me instead of hating on him. He got really mad about it when I didn’t agree.

              He got even angrier when I asked him why someone like him, on the lowest rung of the labor ladder, was simping like that. He had no answer though.

      • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 years ago

        This is Northern Ireland. We don’t have a government at the moment. not saying the Tories haven’t fucked it over. But there is more to it.

  • michaelrose@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    The sad thing is in the US its extremely likely the fellow would have already been dead after years living on the streets with a cardboard sign.

      • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.mlEnglish
        121·
        2 years ago

        You can survive easy out here if you can stay sober enough to make a few phone calls and show up to appointments. Most of the homeless crisis is really just a drug crisis.

        I trust that in order to make such such a generalizing and dismissive statement you have some form of qualification or primary experience?

        • THCDenton@lemmy.world
          77·
          2 years ago

          Yes. I get free healthcare, and I qualify for free food and low income housing. Many of my friends have been homeless and they have had an easy time finding a shelter.

            • MycoBro@lemmy.world
              23·
              2 years ago

              You sure were getting geared up to put him in his place though, huh? I’m going to just start telling people like you “thank you for your service “

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      17·
      2 years ago

      My dad in his 79 years of wisdom told me a few years back about brexit ( we have been in Canada since the 70s)

      “It’s just a roundabout way to say we don’t like brown people”

      I still stick by that. Succinct.