Woke caught out - A must watch...

Within a very short time of plugging myself into the equipment it was noticed that I enjoyed a few quirks in my metabolism which rendered me able to function at atmospheric oxygen levels where others of lesser abiity would have already passed out. This is thanks in my case to a genetic quirk, but anyone can obtain this physiological advantage for as long as they need if they train hard enough in adverse conditions. 

Tibetan Sherpas acquired this capababity to some extent ober generations because of where they chose to live, but also through a different physiological / genetic pathway. 

Elite sportsmen can aquire it for a time by training hard in adverse conditions which is why for example when the world cup is played in certain countries where stadiums are at a higher altitude than ours the teams go to train in such climates at such altitudes.

Where is this going ?

Well simply here ....

On four separate occasions in my life i have survived adverse respiratory conditions due enturely to this quirk, two were situations where an actual fire adjacent to my location reduced the available oxygen in the atmosphere, one was where an accidental release of a fire retardant removed the oxygen in the room leaving me with only a cylinder of a medical research gas to use until rescue came, the use of which should have caused me to pass out because it had C02 levels not of atmospheric gas but of gas at the base of the alveoli, being exhaled, but I didn't because of this quirk, and the fourth was a scuba diving incident where my equipment failed, leaving me for far too long than i considered comfortable without having the luxury of anything to breathe.

In some of the above i was later checked medically and found to have absolutely no adverse effects, which the medics found quite a surprise

The opening words of the chair of this select committee stated that a key point of the committee was to unederstand what measures were being taken to address "under representation of certain sections of the community" in the fire and rescue service

As someone trained to a professional level in some aspects of rescue of persons in need, it seems to me, knowing as i do from the physiological research done at Loughborough and the published admissions of the NHS transplant coordination authority back in 2011, that those same "under represented" sections of the community actually have far less robust respiratory systems and far less tolerance to hypoxia and low oxygen tension unless living at high altitude of maintaining a significant high altitude fitness training regieme designed to adjust blood chemistry than the white man BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT PHYSIOLOGISTS FOUND, that every applicant for a position in any fire and rescue service where hypoxic conditions and the need for high levels of tolerance of anerobic exercise seem to be the NORM rather than the exception shoud be put through the same medical stress tests that i volunteered for at Loughborough, and that succes in such application should depend to some extent on the scientifically proven status of the individual in the upper half of that bell curve, with any in the bottom half being rejected out of hand NOT because of their ethnicity but because of their failure to have a required capacity to withstand the rigour of the job.

Of course this woud mean throwing the ethnicity targets in the bin ........................................