Jack (04-02-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Tough decision.
"The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel’s wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodies lay motionless on low cots and on the ground, shrouded in white sheets. Here, a wisp of gray hair peeked out. There, a knee was flung akimbo. A pallid hand reached across a blue gown.
Within days, the grisly tableau became the focus of an investigation into what happened when the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina marooned Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans. The hurricane knocked out power and running water and sent the temperatures inside above 100 degrees. Still, investigators were surprised at the number of bodies in the makeshift morgue and were stunned when health care workers charged that a well-regarded doctor and two respected nurses had hastened the deaths of some patients by injecting them with lethal doses of drugs. Mortuary workers eventually carried 45 corpses from Memorial, more than from any comparable-size hospital in the drowned city."
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/m...30doctors.html
Tough situation.
https://www.npr.org/2013/09/10/22068...lived-who-died
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Jack (04-02-2020)
Exactly. Overnight, you went from the 21st century ... to the 12th century.
"The staff had to decide who to save, and in a new book, Five Days at Memorial, writer and physician Sheri Fink reconstructs the choices they made. She tells NPR's Steve Inskeep about the sickest-last evacuation system they put in place, and how some doctors hastened their patients' deaths."
from your link.
As VP Pence's COVID-19 team has been warning us for weeks, our nation is going to have a very big problem once the number of cases exceeds our nation's capacity to treat them. The "combat triage" scenario in the OP will playout again and again across the nation unless solutions are found. The idiots can deny all they want but the reality will be the body count.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Jack (04-02-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Jack (04-02-2020), ThatOwlWoman (04-03-2020)
I hate to use this, but it's kind of an analogy.
If a Soldier gets killed on the Battlefield, the fight continues. If a Soldier is wounded on the Battlefield, it takes a couple of other Soldiers to tend to him.
So, when I mention 'body count', I'm talking about 'Dead People'. They're not a problem anymore.
The problem is the 'wounded' (infected) that are using up a huge amount of resources and grinding the Economy to a halt.
They are BOTH bad, but which is worse ... Elderly people with underlying conditions dying ... or infected people consuming all of the country's resources?
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