After encountering a psychopath and a highly positioned incompetent, I've come to the conclusion that England's colonial experiments are still playing out. To the new lands of North America went religious fanatics and businessmen who chafed under England's hierarchy. To the new lands in the South Pacific went not just criminals, but authorities who had taken their power a bit to far and engaged in questionable practices and pompous authoritarianism. After all, dealing with criminals required a degree of authoritarianism, and what safer place for pedophiles than in a colony containing only adult prisoners? (never mind the local savages)
Fast forward 250 years... [Former Headmaster Ian] Paterson stated that he was not aware that it was a crime for a teacher to grope or sexually proposition a student. ...current headmaster John Weeks stated that the school had changed considerably since the end of Paterson's period in the role and that Knox's Paterson Centre for Ethics and Business Studies would be renamed. [Weeks] was questioned over why he had not sacked the teacher who was arrested in 2009 despite having received allegations in 2007 that the teacher had behaved improperly with a student during the 1980s. -Royal Commission Hearings
In the United States, I have worked for some rather lackluster businesses who investigate complaints of wrongdoing by Supervisor X by going to Supervisor X and asking "Are you having any problems?"
Of course Supervisor X says, "No - no problems! And I know who reported this, I'll take care of them." The messenger is shot and the company continues its slide into less than mediocrity. Imagine an entire country whose bureaucratic heritage and ongoing despotic lineage is composed of those who were politely asked to leave England. ‘He Touched Us All,’ Knox Grammar Pays Tribute To Paedophile Teacher
Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, mortality, morbidity, or other indicators. It is often quantified in terms of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), both of which quantify the number of years lost due to disease (YLDs). - Wikipedia
