Posted on 05/06/2008 7:51:17 AM PDT by Sam's Army
1) No, but you helped to further the baseless notion that it very well could be a conspiracy without any evidence that it is by linking it to liberal notions when political ideology doesn’t have much to do with this plan at all.....it’s a task force of physicians making this plan, not a specific government agency and not “booga booga” libs.
2) Anything in the past is irrelevant to the current plan. This is either a good thing or a bad thing on its own merits regardless of anything that has happened in the past.
3) As an infectious diseases expert myself (PhD Immunology of Infectious Diseases) that has worked with a State agency for emergency planning purposes (mostly bioterrorism), yes....we need national and local plans such as this in the event of massive pandemics coupled with shortages of resources.....to maximize the lives saved with a shortage of resources.
It’s good to have a plan in place that includes civilian doctors and government agencies....as the government is the ones that’re going to be dealing with supplies, quarantines, riots, etc...
Or we could just fly by the seat of our pants without planning anything.
Yeah. those bureaucrats do have to eat, don't they?
Yeah. those bureaucrats do have to eat, don't they?
I'm just a few months shy of that magical age of uselessness you all are so facinated with, and I really love to hear what the opinion of the "me first" generation is of us. It's kinda funny.
PS: By the way, I never pushed a baby out of line in my life — and I don’t know anyone who has.
Please don’t take my comments as saying you’re useless...you’re clearly not...but you don’t need to hear that from me. My response was to a comment that most 85+ people would be willing to sacrifice for others...and that ain’t my experience at all.
When I hear about the “me first generation,” I always wonder, “who raised the me first generation to feel and act the way that they feel and act?”
It’s kinda funny.
It’s a metaphor.
The stamp sponge I could go along with -- but the government is already using me for that purpose without making it convenient for every dog in town to do the same to my memorial.
Pray tell, what is an ElectricStrawberry — and does one get electricuted if he/she eats one???
Then, that being so, I imagine anyone trying to eat it [the 25th, that is]would get more of a shock than from the average electricution.
yeah, wish I could take it back. But calling an age for death “triage” is stupid-you basketball!
Again...very mature. I guess you expected that to make me feel inferior to you? You didn't accomplish your goal.
Ok, I’m sorry - you ladder!
Oh OUCH. That hurt!
NOT!
Keep it up, you’re just making yourself look bad. Your credibility is at risk here discipler...
Hey Trussell,
Get a life.
Back to the issue. Do you think designating a cut off age for medical care is just like stand triage?
I have a life...one that I am very happy with, thank you.
I don’t know what the process of “Stand triage” is, so I couldn’t honestly say.
Designating a cut off age for medical care is not something I would be willing to support. Many people older than the suggested age are still very active and have lots they can still contribute to society.
Thanks for the encouragement you have given.
Sure, the concept of triage is nothing new, but basing it solely on a birthdate is different from the sort of trauma triage which most ER personnel are familliar with.
H5N1, not unlike the Spanish Flu, seems to disproportionately affect the young, and apparently, through overstimulating the immune system (Cytokine Storm) causes irrecoverable pulmonary damage.
Ironically, the elderly are not generally in the age group most susceptible to this desease, but those in the prime of life, whose immune systems are generally stronger.
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Thanks for the ping.
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