Barry Baines
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 3 Apr
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You become more tolerable, you know, tolerance increases, patience increases, hopefully, and acceptance of things so that, you know, the idea that, you know, you negotiate, it's perfectly okay for someone to go shopping on Fifth Avenue and someone to go to the, you know, Museum of Modern Art and, hey, you know, I'll meet you here in an hour and a half.
And so sort of negotiating time and space and things like that, I think it helps you to see the people you're traveling with in a more appreciative way, but also understanding that we all have our limitations and we do all need our space. And somehow I've always found that being in a different environment
breaks, you know, all of us get into, you know, this pretty inflexible way that we act and behave, you know, usually when we're at home in comfortable surroundings that we know. And then when you're in a place that you don't know, I think it helps you to loosen up and even have conversations about things like that and be able to do those kind of things.
I think that's one of the other positive payoffs.
of you know of traveling is again it puts you in a a different environment and and you're able to uh you know to do things a little differently and and understanding that sometimes they work and sometimes they don't we're right we're all human and uh you know we might go down one path and you know maybe i have to backtrack so that was i realized that when i when i travel um
Yeah, I just want to say one quick thing about CPAP machines because my sister-in-law just was in town, came in and as you know, you have to empty out all the water bottles, right, before you get on the plane and stuff. And the CPAP machines, she says, I need to get distilled water when I get there to use that. You could actually just use filtered water For a few days.
But if you're going to be gone, need to, again, put that on the checklist. Right, Clarence? Yeah, you know, am I going to be able to am I going to be able to get distilled water? Usually that's an easy thing to to find. But again, it's just one more of those things where, you know, she wasn't thinking about it until she got here. And then it was like. Where can we go?
The other thing are electrical outlets too.
Just that when you add up all the pros and cons, and I think we covered a lot of those kind of things. The bottom line, I think, is that the positives still outweigh the negatives. when you travel, for many of the things that we talked about.
And also, as we had our conversation, a lot of the negatives, the cons, the stressors and things like that, that we can do something beforehand to lessen those, which ultimately will make any travel experience you have more positive, right? You could either all right, add positives or take away negatives. And that, you know, the net result is a better experience.
So I'd say do, you know, do the planning and you'll enjoy your trip more. And there's just lots of rewarding activities and things that you can do with travel. It has lots of benefits. And I hope to Be able to take advantage of some of those. I know my limitations as I get older. I can't do what I did, you know, 40 years ago.
And so I can go on a hike that's more flat rather than, you know, climbing a mountain. But again, it's that planning piece that can really, really help. You do need to be more deliberate with planning.
Well, basically that's one of the areas of health and safety where there is a structure in place. There are departments within governmental perspectives that really address those kinds of things. And certainly things like mine, when I kind of think of the biggies, certainly mine safety, construction, Safety is another one.
And when you look at where a lot of the accidents and mortality comes from, it's in these, you know, fairly dangerous occupations. And, you know, from a health and safety perspective, though, you do have government regulation, you have government intervention, and that Obviously, you can't get away from the political aspects of that, which I'm not going to delve into.
And so at the very least, for health and safety concerns within the workplace, there is a process and there is a navigational path. And the responsibility gets to be a little bit different. than when we get into some of the more personal health and safety issues that we'll get into where the onus really falls on individuals and families and things like that.
The other thing I just wanna say, stepping out to the side here just for a second, is that the research that was done for this is amazing. I mean, the facts that are there in the areas for exploration, Um, I'm so glad that this is going to be a resource for people who listen to the podcast, um, because it could really could make your head spin on the one hand.
On the other hand, these are all things, whether it be in minds in, you know, in occupational issues or at home or in the office. Um, there are things that we can do, uh, to mitigate, uh, against, uh, unexpected bad things happening to people.
Yeah, and I also, I just want to asterisk the falls piece Because certainly within the occupational sphere, I think our research showed over 36% of all deaths recur from falls. And the idea of falls certainly is very, very high for a cause of death for elderly. It's also very common. And also for kids, which we can get into, kids can't fly.
initiative with kids falling out of windows from, you know, in tenement, in tenement buildings. So something like falls is one of those things that really go across the whole spectrum, I think, of all the air, you know, just about all the areas that we're going to be covering. So I just wanted to, you know, point that out. That's a good connection.
So I think that Stan, if I could also just weigh in a little bit, kind of building on what you said, the workplace has changed a lot over the years. And we tend to focus when we think of work safety about all the disastrous things that can happen, you know, falling off buildings, getting electrocuted, you know, being struck by a fallen hammer, you know, things like that.
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