Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "American Reacts to How Different Countries react to Ambulance Sirens" video.
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You know, I can understand India, they are a developing country and the rules on the road are kinda all over the place, China is a developing country but should be doing much better with the rules on the road, and as for the US, there are no excuses, with such wide roads, emergency services shouldn't be having these issues, when you see the videos, you get the impression that the people don't care, from the ones walking to the ones in the cars, there's no sense of urgency to make road for the emergency services and that's shocking to me, because it could be any one of us that the emergency service is on the way to help and for me, it's clear to see that there isn't any or are weak enforcement on allowing emergency services to past through, do they even fine people for blocking emergency services? I suspect no looking at the lack of urgency, but even without that, you would think common decency would kick in, clearly it's not doing.
Contrast that with European countries, where the roads are usually a lot smaller and yet they do a far better job when it comes to letting the emergency services through, whether that is because Europeans are more caring because of the social aspect in European countries or the stricter laws when it comes to giving way to emergency services, probably a mix of the two.
Either way, it's quite shocking how so many other countries and more so modern countries like the US doing so poor on this, especially with emergency services where every second can be the difference from life and death.
I should also point out that this isn't just for ambulances, it's for all emergency services.
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