It’s triage. At my advanced age, I don’t expect anyone to attempt to save my life at the expense of time and resources that could save a younger more viable person.
It’s just ridiculous to expect anything else in a disaster that creates massive fatalities.
Don’t you think people my age already know we are at the end of our lives?
Most likely, care would go to those in the greatest need, but who have the greatest chance of survival. People older than 85 may have the greatest need, but they would be less likely to survive than younger, stronger individuals.
Sad, but there it is.
Do I really need to point out that if they are healthy, they don't need lifesaving care?
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The task force’s recommendations for who would not get treatment include:
• People older than 85.
• Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings.
• Severely burned patients older than 60.
• Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer’s disease.
• Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes.
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Some of those recommendations leave way too much leeway for diagnosis.
Critical injuries can heal.
How severely burned?
What level on mental impairment is *severe*?
Just what would someone call *uncontrolled diabetes?
How much loss of lung capacity?
The potential for abuse of this is makes it totally unacceptable.
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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