Posted on 04/21/2020 9:46:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin
California...public health officials are still planning for a “worst-case scenario,” quietly publishing a sobering set of detailed guidelines to answer the troubling ethical question of who lives and who dies should California face a new surge in the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in a shortage of ventilators and medical supplies.
A 38-page document by the California Department of Public Health, published last weekend, prescribes a method to prioritize patients in the event that an outbreak overwhelms hospitals, preserving intensive care beds and ventilators for people with the greatest likelihood of surviving with treatment over those with serious chronic conditions that limit their life expectancy. If necessary, younger people and workers who are “vital to the acute care response” would receive care before others.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
So predictable.
Well, yeah! What good are OLD people?/S
Are these the boards that were discussed during Obamacare?
back door obamacare ranking of patients, nothing to see here.
they also will rank based on gender and race.
its triage....it exists in every single dire situation....war, famine,etc....
Make yourself the one that must be saved...
Triage is based upon the severity of injury. Not on a bureaucrat’s ideological prediclictions.
Oh sure save the snowflakes and cupcakes, not the adults who actually work, who created the wealth. Save then young useful idiots. All of the young people I know don’t bother to register or vote.
Never seen age or profession used in triage.
Or.... just burn it all down. Screw the “indispensable” pricks.
They are just identifying the useless eaters and letting them die. It comes naturally to the socialist mind. Adolf would be proud?
Also illegal aliens over American citizens.
“Studio 54 triage.....”
Is that where they put Gary Glitter in charge?
Well, it didn’t happen and it won’t but, thanks for opening your Kimono....
Ugly and vile sight to behold...
My singular purpose in life is to make a better future for my children and as much as I think I need to be there for them I’m fairly certain I’ve taught them well enough that simply keeping them safe is my only calling
It doesn’t matter anyway. It’s all fake, and everything is a grand conspiracy. Visit some COVID-19 patients, and inhale deeply. Nothing will happen. The saloons and brothels are more important.
KILLER BUG Dad killed by coronavirus after dismissing ‘bulls***’ lockdown as a ‘political ploy’
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11441636/john-mcdaniel-killed-coronavirus-dismissing-political-ploy/
“Lois Lerner, please pick up the white courtesy phone”
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