Who should we empathize on?

Back again to my precious journal :''. I CANNOT BELIEVE that im actually 6 blogs late. I do not know that i have to update it every week, or maybe i was just not listening to the teacher back then. HAHA. Anyway i have to catch up from week 2. THEN, here we go!

The topic for week 2 is empathizing the people who caught this problem. Yes, this problem, our problem, "too many cars". Ive been discussing this on few blogs before but i will do it more specifically in this blog. So, who should we empathize in this problem? The direct result of too many vehicles on the road is traffic jam, of course. And that would make the the user of the road as the one we should empathize on. However it does not signify greatly when they are not in urgent needs. Maybe they will late for work, or school, but it is already common nowadays and still counted as light disadvantages. But does it ever cross your mind if someone in a dying state need a fast medical assistance and every second counts? Well, it happens a lot. And yes, not few of them are died because of that. Here is one of the story.

Beijing woman dies because ambulance stuck in traffic, reviewed by the Urban Country from Shanghaisit in 13 December 2012. Here is the exact report :

“A woman has died in Beijing when the ambulance that was transporting her to hospital got stuck in traffic. 

An emergency physician working alongside the paramedics vented her frustration online, “The scene of the accident is no more than 3 kilometers from the hospital, yet it took us a good 40 minutes to arrive there! Barely any cars made way for our ambulance! So woeful!” The tweet, posted to Weibo by user ‘Monica-Xiaomo’, was shared over 30,000 times. 

Other Weibo users responded to the doctor’s frustration, some blaming the drivers for having “cold-blooded souls” that they would not move out of the way for an ambulance (though, to be fair, in very heavy traffic there is little one driver can do). Others pointed to the allegedly frequent abuse of sirens by police cars and ambulances which they said had led to a “loss of trust”. 

The driver of the ambulance told Sina News that about half the drivers on the roads typically do not move out of the way of an ambulance. Worse, some drivers “purposely slow down ahead of me if I signaled them to move to other lanes”.

It is a quite ironic remembering the distance was so close yet they cannot managed to bring her in time. It is absolutely because of the severe traffic jam led from too many vehicles. However it is also from the lack of care from the other driver that must have been stress as well being stuck in a long congestion.



From this case we are reminded again to care about out surrounding, about something happens even though it is not directly related to us. It makes us learn to step on other people shoes and imagine how if something similar happened to us. How if we become the family of the victim or the victim herself. In the end, it is the core of the problem that we have to fight, that is the exceeded amount of vehicles on the road. And it is our responsibility to take part! :)


References :
http://www.theurbancountry.com/2012/12/beijing-woman-dies-because-ambulance.html