Comments on: “Ergometer” Checks Pensioners (Jun, 1934) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Baron Waste http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/comment-page-1/#comment-1066334 Baron Waste Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:53:28 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7316#comment-1066334 Actually, this does tie into the eugenics / “social engineering” mindset of the time. The resources of the State must not be squandered on the undeserving! All that's needed is a scientific method of rooting out such anti-social slackers... And here we are. Actually, this does tie into the eugenics / “social engineering” mindset of the time. The resources of the State must not be squandered on the undeserving! All that’s needed is a scientific method of rooting out such anti-social slackers… And here we are.

]]> By: Charlene http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/comment-page-1/#comment-1066296 Charlene Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:52:46 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7316#comment-1066296 Gazzie, you're not as far off the mark as you might think. In Germany at the time, if you were too sick to work and in a public nursing home or long-term care facility, eventually you would have an appointment with carbon monoxide or Zyklon-B. Aktion T-4 killed not just the mentally disabled but also the physically disabled, the very old, and residents of public nursing homes and charity homes not run by the Catholic Church. Even severely injured soldiers from the invasion of Poland were murdered in this way. Gazzie, you’re not as far off the mark as you might think. In Germany at the time, if you were too sick to work and in a public nursing home or long-term care facility, eventually you would have an appointment with carbon monoxide or Zyklon-B.

Aktion T-4 killed not just the mentally disabled but also the physically disabled, the very old, and residents of public nursing homes and charity homes not run by the Catholic Church. Even severely injured soldiers from the invasion of Poland were murdered in this way.

]]> By: Al http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/comment-page-1/#comment-1066294 Al Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:16:46 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7316#comment-1066294 Cat: This is why they were measuring the lung output. Easy enough to tell by graphing output vs. work input. Slackers vill not be permitted... :) Cat:

This is why they were measuring the lung output. Easy enough to tell by graphing output vs. work input.

Slackers vill not be permitted… :)

]]> By: Gazzie http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/comment-page-1/#comment-1066290 Gazzie Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:35:12 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7316#comment-1066290 This article from 1934 is German propaganda. It wasn't designed to root out deadbeats trying to obtain disability benefits. It was Hitler's first fumbled attempt at mass murder. You strap on the mask, crank the handle and it pumps out Zyklon-B. Thus Hitler could deney the Holocaust by claiming these people committed suicide due to the Great Depression. I know, I know, my dark side is showing. This article from 1934 is German propaganda. It wasn’t designed to root out deadbeats trying to obtain disability benefits. It was Hitler’s first fumbled attempt at mass murder. You strap on the mask, crank the handle and it pumps out Zyklon-B. Thus Hitler could deney the Holocaust by claiming these people committed suicide due to the Great Depression.
I know, I know, my dark side is showing.

]]> By: Thundercat http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/comment-page-1/#comment-1066289 Thundercat Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:41:02 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7316#comment-1066289 If people are just lazy and faking disability, don't you think they would be too lazy to put their full effort into working this machine too? If people are just lazy and faking disability, don’t you think they would be too lazy to put their full effort into working this machine too?

]]> By: Al http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/03/03/ergometer-checks-pensioners/comment-page-1/#comment-1066287 Al Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:21:26 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7316#comment-1066287 Put an exercise bicycle in place of the crank and you have a stress test machine as used in hospitals. Same basic setup - they measure respiration and capacities (and nowdays blood )2 sat and other measurements) against wattage out. Only in Germany..."ve haff vays of provink you are disabled...". Put an exercise bicycle in place of the crank and you have a stress test machine as used in hospitals. Same basic setup – they measure respiration and capacities (and nowdays blood )2 sat and other measurements) against wattage out.

Only in Germany…”ve haff vays of provink you are disabled…”.

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