Hospital emergency rooms are preparing for the possibility that the COVID-19 epidemic will get so bad that they may need to turn people away, forcing emergency doctors to make wrenching triage decisions about who can be treated and who cannot.
This is terribly bad news in racist America.
Absolutely terrible.
Ageism is real. NIMBY is real.
The poor, old & colored will not receive care for CoV19.
She has disappeared and it is notable. Most first ladies would be using their bully pulpits to encourage folks in a time of crisis. Not her. She runs away.
My heart is with those dedicated professionals who’ve spent their entire careers helping those in need, now forced to ration care and deny treatment to those desperately ill. It’s a tragedy that feels Biblical in its dimensions, and was probably preventable.
I don’t believe this had to happen were it not for the total mismanagement of this Pandemic by this Administration from even before the first day. If this does happen, Trump should resign or be forced to step down.
Yes, he should. I expect instead he will lead a campaign of severe denial, and blame the media for making it look worse than it really is. Meanwhile, reality will continue for everyone else.
If the requirements have been waived before in emergencies, they can be waived again now. Changing the law will take time we don’t have and will end up being twisted to let people die in the street to improve profit margins.
Frontline fighters face wrenching decisions on whether to protect their own health, as well as that of their coworkers. It is not a glamorous job to help the public alongside possibly infected coworkers, no matter what your profession.
But applause is merited for those who brave the circumstances.
Question: why don’t we have a public drive to get more people vaccinated for the flu? If fewer people are put on respirators for acute flu cases, then more would be available for acute TrumpVirus cases.