Stop Already!

I can't be quiet anymore. It's driving me insane. What?? you say. Internet rumor emails. I love the Internet. It lets me stay in touch with my family and shop. Shopping on the Internet is way cool, but just like anything else, stupid people also use the Internet. So the stupid people make up blatant lies and circulate them through emails. What bothers me the most is the intelligent people I know forwarding them to me. I don't want to think that my friends are that gullible. 99.9% of the emails one receives with the large print type are not real. They get people all stirred up which starts discussions not based on fact. Case in point is the health care issue. Someone started a rumor that they were going to euthanize old people when their health got really bad. Seriously! No not going to happen. However; why would a doctor order diagnostic tests on say a 90 year old with diabetes and COPD on a ventilator? They SHOULDN'T! That would definitely be a waste of medicare dollars. As a nurse I've seen it happen. The waste I mean. I had a brain dead patient (not yet legally declared) but for all intents and purposes he was dead. He had a broken leg as well and the Orthopedic surgeons wanted to do surgery. Really???? Are you kidding me???? Waste of money, and it happens all the time.

The email that I received today that set me off was about gun control. It talked about how there is a bill that would require you to report every gun you own on your taxes. You would be taxed x amount of dollars. There were also other regulation that you would have to abide by in order to own a gun. It actually had a link to a government web site so you could read the proposed bill. I went to the government site, and there is no such bill by that number. Obviously the person that sent me that email didn't even investigate it before forwarding.

Moral of the story is: Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see.
Also, don't send me any email propaganda unless it's a cute puppy.