もしこれが本当にトルーマンの発言であったなら、と言う前提ですが・・・
トルーマン自身は自分を人間だと思っているようだけれども、人間と言うものの品や差別意識はこういうものなんですね。
とても良く分かりました。
人が生きている理由は何かを問えば、それはなんとなくであったり、あるいは家族のためや金のため、あるいは友人や祖国のためや宗教のためなど、様々な答えが帰ってくるだろう。
私が経験したこととは違うかもしれないが、それでも書いておく。
人はどのように自らを認識すべきだろうか。
自らが生きる理由をどのように定義すべきだろうか。
生きる理由をとある一つのことに規定してしまっている場合、それが瓦解した時にレゾンデートルと共にアイデンティティも仕事のモチベーションも完全に喪失する。
そうした時にどう考えるべきであるか。
私が得た答えは次の通りだ。
人間は生まれながらにして、自分が何かが得意である、と言う特徴をどこかに持っている。
それは勉強であったり運動であったり金銭を稼ぐ能力だったり会話だったり絵が上手いとかのその辺りだ。
何も無くとも、「何もない状態でどう生きるか」と言うノウハウを持っていたりする。それが他者へのアドバイスにもなったりするのだ。
そうした状態において、人はある種の職能的な運命に縛られているとも言える。
天命と言い換えてもいい。
その天命を全うすることが人にとっての人の仕事であり、それを生きる理由にすべきだろう。
その人が生きている限り、その人の特徴は消えないからだ。
私が経験したこととは違うかもしれないが、それでも書いておく。
人はどのように自らを認識すべきだろうか。
自らが生きる理由をどのように定義すべきだろうか。
生きる理由をとある一つのことに規定してしまっている場合、それが瓦解した時にレゾンデートルと共にアイデンティティも仕事のモチベーションも完全に喪失する。
そうした時にどう考えるべきであるか。
私が得た答えは次の通りだ。
人間は生まれながらにして、自分が何かが得意である、と言う特徴をどこかに持っている。
それは勉強であったり運動であったり金銭を稼ぐ能力だったり会話だったり絵が上手いとかのその辺りだ。
何も無くとも、「何もない状態でどう生きるか」と言うノウハウを持っていたりする。それが他者へのアドバイスにもなったりするのだ。
そうした状態において、人はある種の職能的な運命に縛られているとも言える。
天命と言い換えてもいい。
その天命を全うすることが人にとっての人の仕事であり、それを生きる理由にすべきだろう。
その人が生きている限り、その人の特徴は消えないからだ。
私の意見は下記。
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韓国船舶抑留…アルジャジーラ、韓国のイラン口座７０億ドル凍結問題に注目
2021.01.05 08:04
https://s.japanese.joins.com/JArticle/274073
韓国国籍のタンカー「韓国ケミ」号が４日、イラン革命防衛隊に抑留された。イランは環境汚染を名分に掲げているが、これまで冷え込んでいた韓国とイランの関係も注目されている。
カタール国営メディア「アルジャジーラ」は韓国のイランに対する口座凍結をタンカー拿捕の背景の一つとして言及した。韓国タンカーの抑留便りを伝えたアルジャジーラは「イラン外務省のＳａｅｅｄ Ｋｈａｔｂｉｚａｄｅｈ報道官が４日、『韓国高位外交部の役人が原油輸出代金凍結問題を話し合うために今週テヘランを訪問する予定』と話した」と報じた。Ｋｈａｔｂｉｚａｄｅｈ報道官は「今回の訪問が膠着状態に陥った交渉の最後になるよう願う」と付け加えた。
米国は２０１８年５月、イランとの核合意（ＪＣＰＯＡ・包括的共同行動計画）から離脱した後、イランに対する制裁を復活させた。米国の同盟国である韓国は２次的制裁などの懸念により制裁を履行している。これに伴い、イランとの交易が事実上中断され、韓国内の銀行にイラン中央銀行名義で開設された韓国ウォン口座も凍結された。
イランは昨年７月、韓国が原油輸出代金７０億ドル（約７２１８億円）を凍結したままにしているとし、韓国を国際司法裁判所に提訴する場合もあると警告した。
韓国はイランの不満を緩和するために、米国との協議を通じて人道的名目で昨年５月に５０万ドル相当の医薬品をイランに輸出した。
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最後の一文を読み解かなければいけない。
>韓国はイランの不満を緩和するために、米国との協議を通じて人道的名目で昨年５月に５０万ドル相当の医薬品をイランに輸出した。
であるのだが、これは原油輸出代金７０億ドル（約７２１８億円）の凍結に対する取引材料になるだろうか。
それぞれグラフを出してみた。
と言うことで全然補填できていない状況であるのだが、しかもこれは医薬品の供給ではなく輸出と言うことで、飽くまでビジネスの一環として輸出しているものだから、更に補填ができていない状況になる。
そして韓国側が持っている取引となる代表的材料はこれしかないということになる。
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韓国船舶抑留…アルジャジーラ、韓国のイラン口座７０億ドル凍結問題に注目
2021.01.05 08:04
https://s.japanese.joins.com/JArticle/274073
韓国国籍のタンカー「韓国ケミ」号が４日、イラン革命防衛隊に抑留された。イランは環境汚染を名分に掲げているが、これまで冷え込んでいた韓国とイランの関係も注目されている。
カタール国営メディア「アルジャジーラ」は韓国のイランに対する口座凍結をタンカー拿捕の背景の一つとして言及した。韓国タンカーの抑留便りを伝えたアルジャジーラは「イラン外務省のＳａｅｅｄ Ｋｈａｔｂｉｚａｄｅｈ報道官が４日、『韓国高位外交部の役人が原油輸出代金凍結問題を話し合うために今週テヘランを訪問する予定』と話した」と報じた。Ｋｈａｔｂｉｚａｄｅｈ報道官は「今回の訪問が膠着状態に陥った交渉の最後になるよう願う」と付け加えた。
米国は２０１８年５月、イランとの核合意（ＪＣＰＯＡ・包括的共同行動計画）から離脱した後、イランに対する制裁を復活させた。米国の同盟国である韓国は２次的制裁などの懸念により制裁を履行している。これに伴い、イランとの交易が事実上中断され、韓国内の銀行にイラン中央銀行名義で開設された韓国ウォン口座も凍結された。
イランは昨年７月、韓国が原油輸出代金７０億ドル（約７２１８億円）を凍結したままにしているとし、韓国を国際司法裁判所に提訴する場合もあると警告した。
韓国はイランの不満を緩和するために、米国との協議を通じて人道的名目で昨年５月に５０万ドル相当の医薬品をイランに輸出した。
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最後の一文を読み解かなければいけない。
>韓国はイランの不満を緩和するために、米国との協議を通じて人道的名目で昨年５月に５０万ドル相当の医薬品をイランに輸出した。
であるのだが、これは原油輸出代金７０億ドル（約７２１８億円）の凍結に対する取引材料になるだろうか。
それぞれグラフを出してみた。
と言うことで全然補填できていない状況であるのだが、しかもこれは医薬品の供給ではなく輸出と言うことで、飽くまでビジネスの一環として輸出しているものだから、更に補填ができていない状況になる。
そして韓国側が持っている取引となる代表的材料はこれしかないということになる。
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Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses
Fri, January 1, 2021, 11:57 PM GMT+9
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-wards-full-children-first-145710680.html?soc_src=social-sh
Medics are starting to see “whole wards of children” suffering from Covid for the first time during the pandemic, a senior nurse has warned.
Laura Duffell, a matron at King’s College Hospital, London, said the new strain of Covid was affecting children and younger adults with no underlying health conditions in worrying numbers.
She said: “It’s very different. That’s what makes it so much scarier for us as doctors, nurses and porters and everyone else who is working on the front line.
“We have children who are coming in. It was minimally affecting children in the first wave... we now have a whole ward of children here and I know that some of my colleagues are in the same position, where they have a whole ward of children with Covid.”
Ms Duffel, a Royal College of Nursing branch official, described a picture of NHS hospitals close to buckling under the strain of rising numbers of Covid patients.
She told Radio 5 Live on Friday: “20 to 30 year olds with no underlying conditions are coming in. In intensive care you could have up to two or three very sick ventilated patients at the moment, which is far beyond what you should have.
“Some of my colleagues across London have been looking after up to 15 adults on a Covid ward with one health care assistant supporting them, so you don’t stop.”
Senior clinicians have now warned that severe staff shortages mean there is little prospect of the Nightingale hospitals riding to the rescue of the NHS as it struggles to cope with the imminent threat of being overwhelmed by Covid patients.
Consultants and nursing leaders say that high levels of nursing vacancies, coupled with high numbers of staff themselves going off sick with coronavirus or stress will make it near impossible to use the Nightingale hospitals built around the country at the start of the pandemic.
The makeshift hospitals were built at sites across England at an estimated cost of £220million, including in London, Manchester, Bristol, Sunderland, Harrogate, Exeter and Birmingham.
Of these the Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November while Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are currently in use for non-Covid patients.
But Mike Adams, the Royal College of Nursing's England director Mike Adams said on Friday that the expectation that the Nightingale hospitals could deliver a significant increase in capacity was "misplaced".
He said: "I have real concerns that the expectation that this mass rollout in capacity can happen is misplaced because there aren't the staff to do it. If we are having to cancel leave to staff these areas, the obvious question is where will the staff come from to open the Nightingales?”
There are already one in eight nursing vacancies, with existing shortages in the type of Intensive Care Unit nurses needed to treat the most severely ill Covid patients, and recent figures showed that one in 10 Covid admissions to hospital are front line health workers - depriving the NHS of badly-needed staff.
Professor David Oliver, a trustee of the Royal College of Physicians and a senior consultant working on Covid wards, told The Telegraph: “Where are the staff going to come from for the Nightingales? The day-to day, hands-on care is carried out by nurses and health care assistants and there already aren’t enough of them.”
The warnings came as the picture across hospitals struggling to cope with a spike in Covid cases grows ever more serious, with consultants estimating that London hospitals are now operating at more than 200 per cent over capacity and even those hospitals in regions not as badly affected by the current wave working at 150 per cent over capacity.
Clinicians say this means beds being placed closer together to make space, increasing the risk of cross infection between patients, and other Covid beds being moved into “every corner” of a hospital. Some major London hospitals have been forced to treat Covid-19 patients in ambulances.
As a result a growing number of non-Covid patients are having to wait longer for potentially life saving treatment for conditions such as cancer.
Department of Health data shows there were 23,813 people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK as of December 28, the most recent figures - more than at any other point during the pandemic, even during the devastating first wave in March and April.
Some 1,847 of these patients were on ventilators in intensive care units.
There are now real fears NHS hospitals are close to being overwhelmed, with some doctors predicting this could happen when the wave of infections from the Christmas and New Year period hits them in two weeks.
Dr Shondipon Laha, a consultant in critical care medicine and honorary secretary of the Intensive Care Society, described the situation in London hospitals and some parts of the north west, as "dire".
He added: "We are close to being overwhelmed now and we will be overwhelmed soon. We are already at the limits. It's very worrying.”
Dr Laha said that patients would soon have to be transferred beyond their immediate region to areas around the country in order to create space for new admissions.
"Covid patients will soon be piling up in casualty departments because there will be nowhere else to treat them. The second peak we’re going through now in London is going to be massive. Bigger than anything we’ve ever experienced,”
“On top of that some planned operations are having to be delayed because there is no capacity at the moment to deal with them, which means people are not being treated for life threatening conditions such as cancer, including brain and stomach cancers.”
NHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as "our insurance policy, there as our last resort".
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Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses
Fri, January 1, 2021, 11:57 PM GMT+9
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-wards-full-children-first-145710680.html?soc_src=social-sh
Medics are starting to see “whole wards of children” suffering from Covid for the first time during the pandemic, a senior nurse has warned.
Laura Duffell, a matron at King’s College Hospital, London, said the new strain of Covid was affecting children and younger adults with no underlying health conditions in worrying numbers.
She said: “It’s very different. That’s what makes it so much scarier for us as doctors, nurses and porters and everyone else who is working on the front line.
“We have children who are coming in. It was minimally affecting children in the first wave... we now have a whole ward of children here and I know that some of my colleagues are in the same position, where they have a whole ward of children with Covid.”
Ms Duffel, a Royal College of Nursing branch official, described a picture of NHS hospitals close to buckling under the strain of rising numbers of Covid patients.
She told Radio 5 Live on Friday: “20 to 30 year olds with no underlying conditions are coming in. In intensive care you could have up to two or three very sick ventilated patients at the moment, which is far beyond what you should have.
“Some of my colleagues across London have been looking after up to 15 adults on a Covid ward with one health care assistant supporting them, so you don’t stop.”
Senior clinicians have now warned that severe staff shortages mean there is little prospect of the Nightingale hospitals riding to the rescue of the NHS as it struggles to cope with the imminent threat of being overwhelmed by Covid patients.
Consultants and nursing leaders say that high levels of nursing vacancies, coupled with high numbers of staff themselves going off sick with coronavirus or stress will make it near impossible to use the Nightingale hospitals built around the country at the start of the pandemic.
The makeshift hospitals were built at sites across England at an estimated cost of £220million, including in London, Manchester, Bristol, Sunderland, Harrogate, Exeter and Birmingham.
Of these the Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November while Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are currently in use for non-Covid patients.
But Mike Adams, the Royal College of Nursing's England director Mike Adams said on Friday that the expectation that the Nightingale hospitals could deliver a significant increase in capacity was "misplaced".
He said: "I have real concerns that the expectation that this mass rollout in capacity can happen is misplaced because there aren't the staff to do it. If we are having to cancel leave to staff these areas, the obvious question is where will the staff come from to open the Nightingales?”
There are already one in eight nursing vacancies, with existing shortages in the type of Intensive Care Unit nurses needed to treat the most severely ill Covid patients, and recent figures showed that one in 10 Covid admissions to hospital are front line health workers - depriving the NHS of badly-needed staff.
Professor David Oliver, a trustee of the Royal College of Physicians and a senior consultant working on Covid wards, told The Telegraph: “Where are the staff going to come from for the Nightingales? The day-to day, hands-on care is carried out by nurses and health care assistants and there already aren’t enough of them.”
The warnings came as the picture across hospitals struggling to cope with a spike in Covid cases grows ever more serious, with consultants estimating that London hospitals are now operating at more than 200 per cent over capacity and even those hospitals in regions not as badly affected by the current wave working at 150 per cent over capacity.
Clinicians say this means beds being placed closer together to make space, increasing the risk of cross infection between patients, and other Covid beds being moved into “every corner” of a hospital. Some major London hospitals have been forced to treat Covid-19 patients in ambulances.
As a result a growing number of non-Covid patients are having to wait longer for potentially life saving treatment for conditions such as cancer.
Department of Health data shows there were 23,813 people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK as of December 28, the most recent figures - more than at any other point during the pandemic, even during the devastating first wave in March and April.
Some 1,847 of these patients were on ventilators in intensive care units.
There are now real fears NHS hospitals are close to being overwhelmed, with some doctors predicting this could happen when the wave of infections from the Christmas and New Year period hits them in two weeks.
Dr Shondipon Laha, a consultant in critical care medicine and honorary secretary of the Intensive Care Society, described the situation in London hospitals and some parts of the north west, as "dire".
He added: "We are close to being overwhelmed now and we will be overwhelmed soon. We are already at the limits. It's very worrying.”
Dr Laha said that patients would soon have to be transferred beyond their immediate region to areas around the country in order to create space for new admissions.
"Covid patients will soon be piling up in casualty departments because there will be nowhere else to treat them. The second peak we’re going through now in London is going to be massive. Bigger than anything we’ve ever experienced,”
“On top of that some planned operations are having to be delayed because there is no capacity at the moment to deal with them, which means people are not being treated for life threatening conditions such as cancer, including brain and stomach cancers.”
NHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as "our insurance policy, there as our last resort".
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