An entire nation can do two different things at the same time. And keeping people (somewhat) healthy is even more important now than ever. You need people to be fit for service and want to keep hospital beds for people with more pressing issues than popcorn lung or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A nation can, but each civil servant can't. Hospital resources are valuable, but I'm skeptical this will make enough of an impact on them to justify the effort.

It's their country, though, so that's just "my 2 cents".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A majority of these civil servants can't help with the war effort in any way, though. And besides, people tend to forget that while a huge part of the population is under arms right now or working in the rapidly expanding arms industry, the majority of Ukranians are trying to live a normal life. Probably not to different from yours either, except you don't have to hide from cruise missiles every night.

This is a bit like the photo of a Kyiv McDonald's that circulated a while back, that a lot of the more conservative crowd took as evidence that "it's not even that bad over there". No, life goes on and a country needs to have some normality to continue to function.

And Susan from all of that, both of us have no idea how long this has been in the making. Might easily have been since before the war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A majority of these civil servants can’t help with the war effort in any way, though.

Press X to doubt. Even hunting down leaks counts; they don't have to fire rockets. I assume these are police people we're talking about.

And besides, people tend to forget that while a huge part of the population is under arms right now or working in the rapidly expanding arms industry, the majority of Ukranians are trying to live a normal life. Probably not to different from yours either, except you don’t have to hide from cruise missiles every night.

Yes, that's true. Taxes still need to be paid, shelves still need to be stocked and drunks still need to be put in the tank. Adding vape enforcement on top of that seems like a lot of bother that they don't need.

From now on, assume this is all my personal opinion. I'm still being engaged after pointing out it's not my call, which is fine, but I don't want someone to turn around and flame me about backseat driving.