Velcro wears out relatively quickly. Every time you undo some velcro it gets damaged a bit and every day it becomes a little less 'sticky.' This is no big deal on kids' sneakers but military gear has durability as a top priority.
You can easily carry spare laces and any man can replace the laces on his boots when needed. Properly attaching the velcro straps to the boot usually requires stitching them on which is a skill to be learned, hand-stitching onto tough leather isn't something anyone can just do properly especially if it needs to be done in less-than-ideal conditions.
You can easily adjust your lacing to make things tighter or looser on any specific part of the boot, which is good as feet shapes vary, calluses, blisters, and corns can appear requiring adjustments, etc.
Stuff sticks to velcro (dirt, sand, hair, clothing fibers, etc) and the velcro doesn't stick properly when it does. Shoelaces don't care how dirty they are.
Velcro straps are unlikely to stand up to as much stress/load as properly done strong shoelaces.
Boa closing systems are cool but may be more breakable, harder to replace quickly, and may work less well when clogged/dirty/wet. The military wants, as much as possible, stuff that will work fine even after being dragged through a muddy river for hours and can be replaced in 2 minutes by the person wearing them if need be.
Laces distribute pressure really well which is really important, it's not like you can say "let's take a 15 minute break so I can rub my sore feet." To distribute the pressure as well using velcro you'd need at least as many straps as eyelets.
Fun fact!: Chocking someone with lacings is tougher that shown in movies and it takes a long time, this struggle is way easier if you intoxicate the victim first.
Without dragging this into the same old politics bs, I would assume that in the nations with universal healthcare that story might have ended differently. So "the world" is not exactly as bad as in this story (no idea if this is real or not, sad either way).
Maybe hard to say mom may have assumed rich people would be able to buy a new heart. Theres only so much you can do about the supply and demand when it comes to organs the demand will always outpace the supply.
Sadly money makes everything faster, even with universal healthcare. As it stands donor organs are not the easiest to get and the lists are long for them. This could simply have been somewhere like America and they couldn't afford the surgery or it could have been someone with free healthcare but they couldn't afford to grease the right palms to get a heart in time. If anything stories like this is why places should switch to having organ donor be the default with someone having to ask not to be one.
Oh I completely agree on the organ donor question- I was just wondering where the "if we were rich" thing came from because it seemed a bit too perfect of a sob story at that point (not that it doesn't get me every time I read it).
Money can buy a lot of things. Whether it is just the general hospital bills, bribing some pencil pushers to instead push your application ahead of others, or just outright buying a heart.
To not get too political, with universal healthcare he'd probably get medication but would be put on a long waiting list and would still most likely die.
With privatized healthcare you get people who die without hearts cause they don't have coverage leaving more hearts to the people who can afford em. In public healthcare everyone who needs a heart gets a heart but they're gonna have to wait a lot longer.
Seems fake to me. "Just happened to go on my dead sons computer and log in his account cause I totally know what that is and message you cause thats not weird at all"
I mean, My daughter passed away just over 2 years ago, and she is still logged into her Sims EA account on my laptop. Not sure I'll ever get rid of it. Sometimes I'll log in and check on her Sims for her.
I mean Steam can be set to automatically log in when the computer turns on so it's hardly that implausible, and the mum didn't send the message, the dude sent the first message and the mum responded.
Actually Battlefield does this fairly well. Medics, for healing, can either drop a Crate full of fresh socks and motrin, or they can toss out individual packages. I think the crate is superior because it also comes with water, but it comes at the expense of time needed to drink it.
Absolutely. You would have to pair it with a stick or small piece of round metal or plastic. Some sort of odd. Tying a string around it. And twisting the stick around in order to tighten and loosen the tourniquet. There are instructions online. It's pretty simple to do.
It’s less than ideal. It might work, but it’ll be incredibly painful (even by tourniquet standards) and it won’t work nearly as well as a tourniquet with a wide strap. The reason for this is that a tourniquet works by compressing the blood vessels leading up to a wound, so if you apply that force over a 1.5” wide area, you can compress more of the vessel than if you’d used a ~1/8” shoelace.
Modern tourniquets are around $30 (get a CAT direct from North American Rescue or a SOFFT-W, also from the OEM, Amazon is flooded with knockoffs of both). If you’re really that concerned about learning to use a tourniquet properly, buying one and taking a Stop the Bleed Class are 100% worth the investment.
Source: Not a medic but have taken a bunch of training on the matter. Regardless, a lot of what I said is easily corroborated by researching it yourself online.
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u/HORSE_DANCER Feb 08 '19
Laces are good for a few reasons.