[kaila]

I am 60. My husband is 65 and has a high risk medical condition. We will probably do okay since I prepped back in December, and I know how to deglove , wear a mask, and I have a stock of Lysol, plus a huge amount of food, gloves and masks.
Do I think it is fair to people 99 out of a hundred to live in poverty so a bunch of 70 to 80 year olds ( maybe including my family) live?
If the hospitals get overwhelmed, those 70 to 80 year olds are going to be allowed to die in favor of treating the young.

[cgbg]

I am not sure you understand what a crashed health care system looks like.

Do some research on some poor third world countries.

There will be highly infected people in the hallways, outside in tents.

There will be armed guards preventing _anyone_ new from entering, _anyone_.

The triage will just be for folks who make it inside.

Most young people will never get that far.

[firebrand]

I have a partial solution:

Since people in their 70s and up are going to die soon, and some of them are actually looking forward to it (I know my grandmother was, on her 90th birthday), let’s set up a volunteer program for the elderly.

Test them first to make sure they’re not infected, then send them to help out wherever trained health personnel are doing jobs untrained people can do. To free up the health workers a bit.

[calenel]

“If the hospitals get overwhelmed, those 70 to 80 year olds are going to be allowed to die in favor of treating the young.”

So let’s not overwhelm them. Duh.