The neighbor said emergency responders worked quickly – but they did not seem panicked.

“In a situation where perhaps time is of the essence, there seems to be a little bit more urgency, but there was no urgency here,” the neighbor told CNN.

When the emergency vehicles left the street, the neighbor said their sirens were not on.

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    57·
    21 days ago

    In a situation where perhaps time is of the essence, there seems to be a little bit more urgency, but there was no urgency here.

    Same reasoning applies with a corpse.

    • Fondots@lemmy.world
      34·
      21 days ago

      I work in 911 dispatch, different areas and agencies may handle things a little differently but where I work we give our incidents a priority from 1-5, with 1 being the highest

      For EMS, priority 1 is things like cardiac arrests, shootings, stuff where the person has a very real chance of dying any second.

      2 is most of the things you’d expect people to call an ambulance for, they do need to be seen in a hospital for and relatively quickly, but you’re not immediately in danger of expiring.

      3 is the stuff that you probably could have called around to a couple friends for a ride or called an Uber or something for or maybe driven yourself to urgent care. Like sure, you probably want to see a doctor about that, but it’s not really that urgent, if you waited until tomorrow you’d probably be no worse off than you are today and in some cases you probably could have slept it off.

      4 is basically for psych issues. You’re basically completely physically healthy and stable, you’re just cuckoo for coco puffs. The only way you’re going to die on the ambulance ride over is if it gets T-boned by a semi truck, or you annoy the crew so much that they throw you out the back of the ambulance while doing 70mph down the highway.

      Which brings us to class 5. You’re dead. You’re obviously dead and no amount of life-saving measures are going to bring you back. Usually they’re not even going to actually take you away in an ambulance, they’re just going to say someone with medical training can go “yep, that’s a corpse” in case the cops on-scene are even dumber than usual and didn’t see you breathing, they’re going to throw a white sheet over you and let the coroner come around later to scrape you up. Unless you’re Mitch McConnell apparently.

  • leadore@lemmy.world
    37·
    21 days ago

    You know we’ve gone full 1984 dystopia when the fucking Senate Majority Leader stands there with a straight face and claims he had a conversation with McConnell about national security of all things (as if you’d really expect them to discuss that), and all the reporters just parrot what he said as unquestioned fact. And no one will bat an eye or ever mention his blatant lying, when it comes out that McConnell was dead the whole time.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    37·
    21 days ago

    He’s passed on! This Senator is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s kicked the bucket. He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleeding choir invisible.

    THIS IS AN EX-SENATOR!

  • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
    18·
    21 days ago

    Moscow Mitch is possibly the man who did more damage to our country than anyone else. The Trump administration is his victory, just with someone he couldn’t control and actually turned his constituency against him.

    Trump is an evil SOB and the US is worse for having him as a president… but I’ll at least say one good thing about him, if you poke your head in conservative circles, they have as much respect for the turtle as the left. And I love that for Mitch. May his legacy forever be mired in shit.

      • zogrewaste@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        20 days ago

        Abused the Senate traditions to advance his party for decades, culminating in a refusal to see dem nominations to the supreme court and then fast tracking repub nominees resulting in the lopsided court that has accelerated the collapse of equal rights in the usa and the speedy rise of corpofascism

      • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        I can’t write up a better TLDR than one of the other responses, they hit the major base points, there’s just so much more.

        What I’ll explain is the level of power he wielded because frankly, a lot of US citizens don’t realize the mechanisms he used so I’m not sure being out of the US would know.

        McConnelll was essentially the leader of the Republican Party all throughout Obama’s administration, and with such he pushed the Republicans to be pure oppositional on EVERYTHING because he noted that Dems working with Bush on No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D helped Bush get reelected. So McConnell’s statements were “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” and “if [Obama is] willing to meet us halfway on some of the biggest issues, it’s not inappropriate for us to do business with him.” The man literally said about our debt “it’s a hostage that’s worth ransoming”

        I’d like to note that when Trump became President, suddenly McConnell was all about putting politics aside and working together as unity to help (his view of) the country.

        Now when he got Senate Majority Leader, that meant he had a lot of power. With our system, a law has to go through both Congress and Senate before being signed by the President. And when the President picks positions like judges, the Legislative branch also confirms them. The Senate Majority Leader gets to choose what comes to the floor. So Obama wants some judges… nah, we’re not going to vote on them and let that expire so we can stack it when a Republican President comes in power. This is why Obama became a big user of Executive Orders (essentially the President creating orders that aren’t laws in that the next President can just tear them down, which Trump did, but since the Executive Branch enforces them they essentially become laws in their own way. It’s more complicated than that but by that point I don’t have the law degree to explain better) which the Republicans whined SO MUCH about… and went strangely silent when Trump started using them.

        I’d also like to note, McConnell voted to convict and remove Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial, but when Trump’s first one came up he actively denied four witnesses from coming to the floor “I’m not an impartial juror [in this impeachment trial]. This is a political process. There’s not anything judicial about it.” And despite being outspoken about Trump’s attempt to overturn the election for Biden (only after Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol) and stating that he supported Trump’s impeachment, he refused to call an emergency meeting of the Senate for the trial, calling for delaying it after Biden’s inauguration, then voted to acquit Trump by stating it was unconstitutional to convict a President who was no longer in office. He went on a 20 minute tirade about how he thought Trump was guilty “If President Trump were still in office, I would have carefully considered whether the House managers proved their specific charge.” and stated that Trump didn’t get away with it because he’d still be subject to the US criminal and civil laws.

        Of course McConnell would filibuster and vote against an independent commission to investigate the Jan 6 US Capitol attack.

        And back throughout Biden’s administration, it was back to pure obstructionism, nothing else.

        McConnell became a senator a year before I was alive, and has wielded an entire party of our country until it took a demagogue who hated him to turn the party against him. According to his biographers, Alec MacGillis, McConnell went “from a moderate Republican who supported abortion rights and public employee unions to the embodiment of partisan obstructionism and conservative orthodoxy on Capitol Hill.”

        … well this was supposed to be a short writeup… but that didn’t work. And I still feel like a lot got left out.

  • Toga77@lemmy.world
    17·
    21 days ago

    People should be in the streets at Kentucky lawmakers homes right now.

    This is insanity.

  • Mediocre_Bard_Redeux@lemmy.world
    16·
    21 days ago

    That man is dead unless he gets up in front of his constituents and says otherwise. Maintaining that he is alive to “protect his seat” is criminal and those responsible should be put to the sword.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    163·
    21 days ago

    I mean… thats the only way you get into an ambulance.

    They aint gonna fuckin loony toons bar bouncer you into the back of the ambulance from 20 feet away.

  • brown567@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    21 days ago

    I mean, a non-hurried loading in a stretcher is also what happens when a case isn’t immediately life-threatening but still requires medical attention

    Don’t they usually put people in body bags before loading if they’re already declared dead?

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
      4·
      20 days ago

      1000012433

      Is this in poor taste? FUCK THAT AND FUCK MITCH MCCONNELL, ROT IN HELL YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

      I’m sorry I’ve had a rough day.

      I still stand by what I said tho.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
      2·
      21 days ago

      Dead and smelly yes dead not alwaysn especially if their county says only docs can pronounce until then they just sorta try their best to do something until they get to the hospital and trade them over.

  • Bluedragon012@lemmy.world
    6·
    20 days ago

    One of the rare times breaking HIPAA would be worth it. Anyone there, anyone, break it, break it wide open. Think about it, doae this monster diserve privacy? He is a public official. He does not get the right to privacy. People will protect you and support you. do it.