COVID-19’s Frontline Fighters Face Wrenching Decisions On Who To Treat | Talking Points Memo

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 a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1298421

The Trump Family just released this inspirational message…

i%20dont%20care

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Yup.

I don’t think that jacket was a coincidence. I think it’s her view of the rest of us.

@maximus

I hope this reappears in campaign ads to remind everyone of the unfathomable and callous indifference of Crime Family Trump.

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Remember the crazy ACA “death panels” scare? Yeah…good times.

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She’s a Trump. Don’t you dare pity her. She is as deplorable as her fake hubby.

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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.

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Should check their voter registration at the door. If it’s an R, they voted for this, and should be turned away.

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That wasn’t pity. It was scorn. She has disappeared into the vapors.

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Honestly, a lot of Americans really don’t care. And when it hits their family, they’ll find someone else to blame.

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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. :clap:

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Got it. Of course she did. She’s a Trump.

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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.

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Because vaccinations are an evil plot!! Fuck these people who don’t understand statistics or science, yet think they are smarter than everyone else.

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As have all the rest of them, run away.

Where’s Melania? Wife-daugher Ivanka? Tweedledum and Tweedledummer? Rudy? Barr?

All notorious in their absence, huh?

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This has already happened on the west coast and will continue to be a huge issue. 141 fire fighters quarantined!

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Yeah, I was thinking that about Tweedledum and Tweedledummer. Where are they with their rich-boy wisdom to help us through these trying times?

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