Replies

That is NOT what they're saying! They're not saying, "if you're down to X you do Y". They're saying, "In case of disease, don't worry about anyone with a disability, diabetes or the elderly."

Don't you see? They're taking it to a whole new level. If there's a pandemic, automatically stop treating X.

This is NOT OK. Why can't you people see that we're not dealing with rational, humane people? They're saying, if there is and emergency AND if you have a "normal adult" with a 20% chance of survival and a child with Down's Syndrome with a 75% if survival, you are to treat the "normal" person. Both may die, but they don't care.

They don't want the Down's Syndrome child to live.

In normal triage situations, the Down's child would get the treatment, because he wouldn't be devalued as a human being. Triage just looks at the odds of surviving a certain situation, not the person surviving it. Triage doesn't give a crap is the person who survives is good for the gene pool, or the state. It only cares who will survive the crisis in question.

This mandate changes all that. Now doctors are supposed to look at the value of the human being.

This is a SIN.

Marie we are talking about a pandemic. Hell even the doctors and nurses may be sick. We could all die. If this were to happen it would be a mess that we never had before. It would make 9/11 look like a tea party. Remember planning does not make for exact occurance. We could not control a city during a hurricane. How well do you think things will go during a major national incident of this magnitude?????