I have NEVER seen a triage situation where they *automatically* denied care to disabled and elderly people.
That is true.
I was just saying that triage is one of those necessary resource-management/optimization problems; they have to consider both how many expendable resources “fixing” the person will take, as well as how long reusable resources would be committed to them.
Case in point, suppose you only have one wheel-chair to transport patients and something heavy falls over nearby severing someone’s arm and only breaking another’s legs. You would most likely commit the wheel-chair to the one with broken legs, to minimize damage walking would cause, and then after applying a quick tourniquet to the severed-arm (to effectively stop the bleeding) one nurse/assistant/person would help him walk to the treatment area and another [possibly, though he might have to wheel himself if manpower is too low] could wheel the other to the treatment area.
And that is the problem.
Triage, in cases of denial of care, is used when the patient will either die anyway, or use up so much resources where the doc's treating him could have saved 3 people. This is what is done in battlefield triage.
Reading a bit further into this article, it looks like someone wants to kill off the "unfit". Or they expect this to be like a 1918 pandemic.
“I have NEVER seen a triage situation where they *automatically* denied care to disabled and elderly people.”
And I pray to God you never do.