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Subreon t1_iyq6j2n wrote

Reply to comment by ehmaybenexttime in A Philadelphia woman collects thousands of stuffed animals and brings them to seniors who are in need of a Christmas gift by AmethystOrator

Another victim of car dependant America. Once a senior becomes too out of it to drive anymore, it's basically over for them. So they either gotta be discovered rotting in their home, or give up their freedom in trade for having people around. Sensibly designed cities have a variety of continuous transit options and plazas everywhere for people to just chill and chat casually. And crossing paths with cars isn't a life threatening endeavor because they're made to crawl through the wisely designed street that naturally encourages slower driving. That's true freedom. Such a beautiful infrastructure setup

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Chi_FIRE t1_iyq7t0w wrote

Found the fellow Not Just Bikes watcher. Based and bikepilled!

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ehmaybenexttime t1_iyq79ii wrote

What are you on about!? I would say it has a lot more to do with people that are not able to leave the home because of medical issues. This issue is firmly in the hands of a community that doesn't value our older generations. They may not think the way that we do, and they may be kind of hard to deal with sometimes, with issues like dementia, Alzheimer's and generalized anxiety that comes from pain and aging. Those people can't get out by themselves, even if you put them on a bus. People need to VISIT those lonely people. They are people. They are lonely, but they're also confused and require medical attention almost all the time. Putting them on the goddamn bus wouldn't help.

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Subreon t1_iyssu5m wrote

Must've missed the part about the plaza and safe walkability for them to socialize and attend their own needs like getting food from one of the several small local shops lining the pedestrian covered streets. They don't even have to travel to do all that in a sensible city. If they have a medical issue, there's a lot of people around to immediately notice it and help or get help. Even in a nursing home there's only so many staff, and if a senior has an issue where nobody is watching at the moment, then they could die from something simple they easily could've been saved from. What I'm going on about is that a lot of what's wrong with America is rooted in how its infrastructure was designed. And that itself is rooted in the evil rich. All roads, ironically, lead to the rich. Solve these problems and this country will truly shine

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