JSO prevent a mum taking her baby to hospital.

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I don't know what these people think they are achieving. I think the mum was in a cab which looks like an electric car anyway, they refuse to let her get past.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23127608/furious-mum-screams-baby-hospital-just-stop-oil/?utmcampaign=nativeeshare&utmsource=sharebarrnative&utmmedium=sharebarr_native

Well they didn’t tell her what to say..

"What gets me is this: why do they not do things like release computer viruses to cripple Chinese coal-fired power stations? Fund actions to send someone undercover to sabotage all the polluting plants?"

In June the UK had to fire-up a resting coal-fired power station as there was insufficient wind to produce enough electricity and it was too hot for many solar panals to work properly. Without using coal we couldn't all charge our electric vehicles, never mind use the other electrical devices which we rely on for comfort and well-being.

They're utter scumbags who can shove their legal right up their backsides.

My point was nobody cares if another road was open. Absolutely nobody except those who defend these idiots.

You are aware that JSO very rarely announce their idiocy in advance, so what you actually want is for taxi drivers to join JSO as that would be the only way to find out.

Where is it published?

Would HAVE

It’s a bit redundant to let everyone know you’ll cause mass disruption

I mean why blame just the taxi driver anyway? Every driver could just avoid that road

Questioning someone's rationale on an anonymous public forum where the thread is inviting comments on the situation is not the same as going to someone's door and insisting they answer to you.

I'm not sure how you're not getting this. Lots of posts on MN question people's actions all the time.

Not many people would question whether a mother actually had a sick baby.

I agree. I think the Sun is blowing this up into something it isn't.

And what.... your point is what?

That the sun as much as I think theyre despicable, it's ridiculous to sau they're responsible.

Yes let's blame the sun, the members of the public, the taxi drivers....

The mother never once said the baby was sick, just that she has a baby in the car...if the baby was sick I'd hope she'd sau anything at all to suggest this...'i have a sick baby in the car', 'my sick baby needs urgent medical attention', 'i need to urgently take my sick baby to the hospital'....the article is just written by climate change deniers trying and succeeding at pushing their anti climate agenda.

Given she doesn't say her baby is sick in the video, I have no idea how you can so confidently assert the baby was critically ill.

She says (as far as I can make out from the video through the car horns) "I have a newborn baby in the car..... My baby..... I'm not scared of you.... Newborn baby in the car, going to hospital".

Going to hospital could be anything from minor outpatient appointment to life or death emergency. Why are you so confident it's the latter when we have no evidence for that?

I’m commenting on your post re the Sun it’s not that hard

Why are you being aggro on all this.

Idiot taxi driver etc. You do realise that if they could know all drivers could, why are any stuck there?

Nowhere in the video does she claim that the baby is sick.

Nobody cares.
It's such a stupid point of discussion designed to distract

But that was actuallu response to a PP who claimed all of mumsner question posters.

They do draw a line.

It doesnt matter. The woman had every right to get through and I canr honestly believe women are debating this

Just pointing out that a lot of people have assumed a sick baby...if she's just going to the hospital for an outpatient appointment then theoretically the JSO has a legal right to protest and they are actually just inconveniencing people and not being horrible people with a 'chilling' lack of empathy like the hyperbolic person i replied to was claiming

Imagine the AIBU

The OP posts that shes running late for a NHS out patient appointment Imagine the answers she would get.

Why are you so late? Couldnt you leave earlier Dont you know the NHS is on its knees.

Well i was late cos JSO were sitting in the road.

Oh thats OK then They are actually just inconvieniencing you and also inconvieniencing the NHS.

"dont you know the NHS is on its knees" only seems to matter when its the patient that can be blamed.

If an out patient appointment is missed it can take MONTHS to get another one.

Exactly.

I agree too. The right wing press want the plebs to bicker amongst themselves whilst their political allies in government get up to no good.

I understand what you're saying, it's not good to be late to or miss appointments. All i was saying in my response to some who called it 'chilling to stop a sick child from getting to hospital' is that the first point is an inconvenience and the second is hyperbolic and presumptuous.

Lots of things in life are inconvenient but not necessarily chillingly abhorrent.

But if we don’t know, how did the protesters know with such certainty that the baby was fine to sit in traffic for hours and miss it’s appointment? They should have just showed some compassion and common sense and let them through. They’ve still disrupted and peed off 1000 other people.