https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls

"99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients."

Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.

This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?

  • Xx_Aru_xX [she/her, they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Sometimes over here in Algeria we have food shortages and food rations get enforced by the gendarme, and that included bread for a while (start of the Ukraine war), and I personally have been in literal so called "breadlines" I don't know how similar or different they are here compared to the USSR, but I don't understand the whole propaganda point either??? like it feels no different than waiting inline in the super market it's just that you can't buy a gazillion breadsticks, but hey thanks to the guy before you not being allowed to buy a gazillion breadsticks you actually bring back home breadsticks.

    • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      In America you'd have patriots storming the place to hoard months worth of bread for their bunker, where they'll shoot anyone that approaches.

      When covid started there were regular shortages at supermarkets because of people buying supplies in bulk. Stores put limits on how much toilet paper and stuff you could buy at once so Americans predictably cried about authoritarianism China USSR 1984. Also some people made a business out of scalping toiletries, selling TP for like fifty bucks per roll. We let the free market take care of things here. 🦅🧻

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      I did stand in those infamous lines in 80's Poland and while it did sucked, it still beats the hell of not getting anything because being poor or because the fist two people bought all of whatever you wanted.

      Also those weren't the bread lines, bread was available. Hell, now i have to sign the list in store and order bread in advance because they only bake as much as needed and it's often impossible to buy bread in local store after the morning pass.