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sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 04:40 PM Apr 2020

On CNN just now.

Harvard doctor developing a point system to say which patient will receive life saving care.

That is exactly what Italy had to do. Treat those that may survive and leave the others to die. I have no words how heavily that will weigh on these caregivers.

Fact is they can't save them all and this Government is doing nothing to help them.

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On CNN just now. (Original Post) sheshe2 Apr 2020 OP
Damn Sad Sherman A1 Apr 2020 #1
The Republicans have kairos12 Apr 2020 #2
Genocide Don, being true to his Nazi principles. wnylib Apr 2020 #28
He is always claiming he is number one on everything imaginable DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #58
Truly said lefthandedskyhook Apr 2020 #95
Oh but WAIT A MINUTE? I thought that they're the pro-life party, caring about the sanctity of HUMAN The_REAL_Ecumenist Apr 2020 #64
Not Once They're Born ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #101
I think of the doctors at that hospital during Katrina Lars39 Apr 2020 #3
+1 I did too. bronxiteforever Apr 2020 #5
that must have been horrendous renate Apr 2020 #63
That is all I could think about DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #92
I wish I believed in Hell, because tha t is where Donnie death and his murdering band belong. niyad Apr 2020 #4
And still, 86% of his party still loves him like a God. (nt) Elwood P Dowd Apr 2020 #8
86% of 37% is what? gibraltar72 Apr 2020 #16
Still WAY too much. Caliman73 Apr 2020 #20
it's not 37%, registered republicans account for only getagrip_already Apr 2020 #27
Where can we find a link to those numbers? I'd love to make myself BComplex Apr 2020 #71
I also don't believe in Hell, but I lived in Bakersfield for a year. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2020 #50
yes. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #72
Well that banshee Palin said we'd have death panels SoonerPride Apr 2020 #6
banshee palin - how apt empedocles Apr 2020 #7
What ever happened Chainfire Apr 2020 #36
She dressed up as a candy colored bear in The Masked Singer recently. Proof below! hedda_foil Apr 2020 #38
Horrifying. And tragic. And enraging. (nt) klook Apr 2020 #9
Right now... UncleTomsEvilBrother Apr 2020 #10
I've been watching this come down the pike. The_jackalope Apr 2020 #11
As usual Timewas Apr 2020 #12
As someone in the disability community thucythucy Apr 2020 #13
They want ONE thing from persons w/MS CountAllVotes Apr 2020 #21
Couldn't agree more with you DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #93
I have ONE friend left at this point CountAllVotes Apr 2020 #100
Thucy... sheshe2 Apr 2020 #42
Might as well say goodbye to me CountAllVotes Apr 2020 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Apr 2020 #19
never give up bdamomma Apr 2020 #40
Love ya. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #44
You wrote earlier about being unable to get groceries. mahina Apr 2020 #106
No groceries CountAllVotes Apr 2020 #109
Just had the hate radio on in my car. "The ones most likely to die are the least productive people." Midnight Writer Apr 2020 #15
Who said that bullshit? Was it Sebastian "Evil Stewie Griffin" Gorka? Efilroft Sul Apr 2020 #17
Dr. Oz. Midnight Writer Apr 2020 #18
I'm appalled he said that. Efilroft Sul Apr 2020 #23
That dude was always a grifter. Hanzzy72 Apr 2020 #68
Nazi talking points. wnylib Apr 2020 #32
true agingdem Apr 2020 #69
How many times have people wondered wnylib Apr 2020 #89
Welp. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #75
Not even a death panel. plimsoll Apr 2020 #22
Yep empedocles Apr 2020 #29
It's going to happen in a lot of other countries. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2020 #24
Everyon should homegirl Apr 2020 #99
Not only doing nothing to help, but wnylib Apr 2020 #25
Yes. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #30
So, do we as a nation just stand by and watch wnylib Apr 2020 #34
tRump bdamomma Apr 2020 #41
So what would be more wnylib Apr 2020 #77
yes bdamomma Apr 2020 #78
As this virus moves into rural areas, Trump supporters will be affected. Lonestarblue Apr 2020 #26
My fear (and it happened before CV) was that when in outstate MO, someone got seriously ... SWBTATTReg Apr 2020 #53
I'm just going to say it. Republicans die. Democrats, we save. rainin Apr 2020 #31
What are the point criteria? Paying hush $ to a porn star and partying on the beach during flibbitygiblets Apr 2020 #33
Please do not mistake these caregivers, Doctors, for the TRUMP Admin. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #37
Yes, and it's important to remember the toll these decisions will take on our caregivers. nt crickets Apr 2020 #46
I can't even imagine. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #76
That's fine, as long as we know what the system actually is. eom tarheelsunc Apr 2020 #35
It helps the triage person DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #39
Yes, absolutely! Thekaspervote Apr 2020 #47
No hope for survival is the triage designation ... Maribelle Apr 2020 #74
Triage officer in a Mass Casualty Incident DENVERPOPS Apr 2020 #90
I wonder if money gets you more "Life" points? Baked Potato Apr 2020 #43
Trump would say yes. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #45
I hope not, this whole thing is so bad. Baked Potato Apr 2020 #52
Money skips you to the head of the line. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #56
Well this crisis is different. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #80
Exactly, Italy had to determine who was more viable to live and treat them and push the iluvtennis Apr 2020 #48
This is going to erase whole sections of population in the way wars erased generations, Ford_Prefect Apr 2020 #49
We are at the same state as Italy NOW and we are moving beyond quickly... jimlup Apr 2020 #51
Great legacy, tRump. MADA. MAKE AMERICANS DEAD AGAIN. SammyWinstonJack Apr 2020 #54
Keep in mind that... Newest Reality Apr 2020 #55
The 44% of Cult45 still supporting dotard will be in this pool of point system patients too. ffr Apr 2020 #57
"Death Panel Donnie" will last as well as Typhoid Mary. Hassler Apr 2020 #59
Helplessness Sucha NastyWoman Apr 2020 #60
If the Harvard doctor is not also denouncing the Trump administration s/he is being unethical. delisen Apr 2020 #61
This Meowmee Apr 2020 #82
I have no doubt Trump and his filth figure the dying are mostly likely Democrats. C Moon Apr 2020 #62
He would be wrong. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #65
remember all the death panels that the rs screamed that what obama and obama care would create ? AllaN01Bear Apr 2020 #66
It's terrible that this has to happen. William769 Apr 2020 #67
Best health care system in the world. warmfeet Apr 2020 #70
Word. sheshe2 Apr 2020 #81
republican bastards phlaz Apr 2020 #73
Testing Tink41 Apr 2020 #79
Indeed. I would not want to have to make decisions like that. Laelth Apr 2020 #83
It happened in Italy and elsewhere. Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #84
I always feel guilty when a person with family and friends dies. Jamastiene Apr 2020 #85
... sheshe2 Apr 2020 #87
Are you kidding? Buckeye_Democrat Apr 2020 #88
I'm high risk, it seems only a matter of time and I won't be going to the hospital Runningdawg Apr 2020 #86
AND YET... This government will do nothing.... yuiyoshida Apr 2020 #91
Republicans are the Party of Death n/t OhioChick Apr 2020 #94
Trump Virus death panels. MadMike47 Apr 2020 #96
Government is hindering care for their personal profit and to destroy us. lark Apr 2020 #97
don't be surprised study war no more Apr 2020 #98
Point system? I think Narcissism and Sociopathy Ilsa Apr 2020 #102
Trump has the blood of those chosen to die on his hands. TruckFump Apr 2020 #103
UNBELIEVABLY EVIL Ad Infinitum Apr 2020 #104
Trauma and emergency medicine providers, military and civilian have always used point systems. See.. usaf-vet Apr 2020 #105
Where are the all lives matter folks now? Odawg Apr 2020 #107
Welcome to the Democratic Underground Odawg!!! CountAllVotes Apr 2020 #110
When the system hits overload, doctors have to use triage...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2020 #108

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
58. He is always claiming he is number one on everything imaginable
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:08 PM
Apr 2020

Now, he is trying to out do Hitler to claim he pulled off the greatest genocide ever.......

The_REAL_Ecumenist

(719 posts)
64. Oh but WAIT A MINUTE? I thought that they're the pro-life party, caring about the sanctity of HUMAN
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:29 PM
Apr 2020

life, the party that were the ones who were for the abolition of Slavery, that black folks were care SO MUCH more by them, Abraham Lincoln, ad nauseam...Amirite, Fellas?

Wait, it appears that EVERYONE who were yelling at people like me that they believed their fucking lunatic when he said that a VIRAL DISEASE was a HOAX, Democrat plan to make chump look bad, (REALLY? lol!) on twitter, FB, etc have gone quiet & I think it's funny as hell. Now that they're looking a horrific death IN THE FACE caused by the DEMOCRATIC HOAX, shit's gotten REALLY real.

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
101. Not Once They're Born
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 01:26 PM
Apr 2020

They only care about life for 8 or 9 months.
After that, you're on your own, slacker!

renate

(13,776 posts)
63. that must have been horrendous
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:25 PM
Apr 2020

I'm so sorry. I hope you also feel very proud of the work you did--including making the difficult decisions that you had no choice but to make. That's a burden nobody would want to bear, but you stepped up and bore it.

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
92. That is all I could think about
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 02:39 AM
Apr 2020

when I heard that come out in the news. That wasn't triage, they were elevated to Sainthood for what they knew they had to do. My heart went out to all those caregivers in that hospital and I truly began to despise W's administration at that point....
But W's cold black heart, (actually, Cheney/Rumsfeld, because in reality they were running that whole administration) is nothing compared to Trump AND THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY at this point in time. Hands down, no comparison........



Caliman73

(11,736 posts)
20. Still WAY too much.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:27 PM
Apr 2020

If half of the people in the US 330 million people, are eligible to vote that is 165 million. 37% of 165 million is about 61 million people. 86% of that is 52 million people. Way too many complete idiots.

getagrip_already

(14,742 posts)
27. it's not 37%, registered republicans account for only
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:46 PM
Apr 2020

about 25% of registered voters. Dems are about 28%. Indies and other parties are the rest.

It's still too many people, but a small percentage overall.

BComplex

(8,049 posts)
71. Where can we find a link to those numbers? I'd love to make myself
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:41 PM
Apr 2020

feel better about this world by seeing the numbers go down.

Also fox news viewers. They're prolly the same 25%?

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
6. Well that banshee Palin said we'd have death panels
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 04:46 PM
Apr 2020

so of course Republican incompetence and malfeasance made it happen.

This is so very upsetting.

The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
11. I've been watching this come down the pike.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 04:55 PM
Apr 2020

The numbers have gotten seriously ugly. In my opinion the overwhelming of the hospital system has been baked in the cake since the beginning. With proper management and perfect execution from the very beginning, we could have delayed the spread enough to have landed in Italy's situation. Not China's because the political landscape is so different.

Realistically, the private health care system in the USA has teamed up with Trumpian incompetence and self-serving malfeasance to make universal DNRs and the triage of ventilators inevitable.

Death panels have come home to roost, for real this time - and under a Republican president!

thucythucy

(8,048 posts)
13. As someone in the disability community
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:00 PM
Apr 2020

I find this absolutely chilling.

It's already an issue with some doctors wanting to deny care to people with certain disabilities, even without a pandemic. Someone very close to me was almost denied chemotherapy for cancer because she had MS and used a wheelchair. (The doctor eventually relented).

This pandemic is going to rip this nation apart. We are in for so much grief. All thanks to Trump and his corrupt-to-the-chore enablers.

CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
21. They want ONE thing from persons w/MS
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:27 PM
Apr 2020

They want you to take their black box drugs.

These drugs CAN AND WILL KILL YOU. They know this.

But they push them anyway at astronomical costs.

They suppress/alter the immune system!

That is why I would never take them.

Lack of efficacy, studies, blah blah blah.

I figured this out real fast not long after DX'd in 1995. No one cared then and they sure as hell do not care now.

Fuck the lot of you that feel this way about disabled people!



DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
93. Couldn't agree more with you
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 02:48 AM
Apr 2020

When I was a child, I watched the progression of that disease in my mother, until she passed.

You saw Trump's impersonation, at one of his rallies, of a disabled person in the audience at a prior rally.......

It made my blood boil. I have spent every moment since, obliterating all Republican friends from my life, including some life long ones.


CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
100. I have ONE friend left at this point
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 01:24 PM
Apr 2020

Last edited Sat Apr 4, 2020, 03:34 PM - Edit history (2)

It is a man and he is two days older than me. He is from Louisiana and also disabled.

We were talking the other day and I was telling him what this disabled woman named Amanda Siebe that is running for a seat in the House of Representatives in Oregon posted not long after everything was shut down there.

She posted, "Welcome to my world".

That summed it up nicely and I have few words for my family that is left that I never hear from, and that is, "To hell with all of you".

People seem to think that if you have MS you get lots of help. I have never received any help! Never!

I almost ended up on the street not long after my DX as I had gone blind and could no longer work. I called the MS Society to ask them if they had any money that they could send me as I had no way to pay the rent which was $400 at the time. They had nothing to give or help a person in my situation. Nope.

I was promised an appt. with a neurologist at a teaching University that is affiliated with them as well. I had that set-up and bought a r/t airline ticket to fly there and back and they canceled out on me. That's right canceled! That cost me $700!

I tried to get them to send me my money back as what they did was deemed unethical by DREDF (Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in Berkeley, Calif.). I had no option but to sue them to get my money back and when they found out about that, their reply was clear, "Get off our backs and just go away!". I had no choice but to walk away empty handed as who would take such a paltry case? No one, that is who.

This past year, the final straw broke for me. They canceled the annual "MS Walk" because they were not raising enough money where I am located. How is that for a giant f/u?

I have had nothing to do with the MS Society since. Who in their right mind would?

There is an organization back east called the MSAA (1-800-LEARN-MS - The Multiple Sclerosis Association of America) and they will try to help to a point and they have sent me equipment in the past. They aren't out there trying to hustle the last buck you might have out of you, so a for them.

Shame of these "organizations" that act like they "help". Most of them want one thing and that is to get you use one of these black box drugs that can and do kill! They try to convince people like me that I need these drugs they push by inviting you to fancy dinners at restaurants that you could never afford to go to otherwise. These "dinners" are funded by the drug companies and a doctor is there that they have paid off to push their drugs. These drugs cost as much as $150,000+ a year or more.

I've seen people attend such events and eat every scrap of food put out and stuff leftovers in their pockets and bags as they leave, as many of us are in the same sad boat, sick and nearly broke. We cannot afford to have a dozen eggs delivered to where we live for $10 a dozen by Safeway so there will be no more eggs around here!

I cannot go out any more. Recent food orders via Instacart were never filled, just canceled without notification. I called a phone number being given out for help for the elderly and the disabled that was being given out. I called that phone number and they routed me to another place that gave me yet another phone number to call and that number was disconnected! I've called other places as well and there is either no one there or if there is an answer, they tell you to call another place. Its like riding on broke down merry-go-round!

Since this time, realizing that the risk is simply too great for me should I go out and shop, as if I get sick so will my 84 year old husband that is almost blind and nearly deaf. Will he die being he is in the highest risk group? I couldn't live with myself if this were to happen. If it was just solitary me, I would take that risk and go out and shop because I REALLY DO NOT CARE DO U? as what's her face had printed on her coat!

So, yesterday I ordered $165 worth of nuts, dried fruit, energy bars and other packaged food items from a natural foods store I know of that delivers for free. This supply will have to last me for a few months and will not arrive for a couple of weeks. I do not know how long we will be able to hang-on like this, but we will try our best and I am well-stocked on cat food for my three cats luckily as yes, I SAW THIS WHOLE THING COMING in January 2020! You can trace this back my viewing my posts here on the DU as proof.

Finally, I am sorry to know your mother suffered so much. My mother had multiple sclerosis as well but she managed hide it from the world and died dubbed a drug-seeking hypochondriac! I cannot tell you what a *shock* that was to me to find out after her death.

Take care and I thank you. I am glad someone out there knows this sickening reality! Maybe some one out there that doesn't have a clue as to what disabled people go through will read this and learn a thing or two, that is my hope.

As to those that listen to the gospel according to dump, their day is coming if it has not arrived quite yet! Welcome to My World indeed!




CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
14. Might as well say goodbye to me
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:03 PM
Apr 2020

They sure as hell will not care for me.

They barely do now.

Oh well, it was a life lived for a bit ...

That's all I can really say.



Response to CountAllVotes (Reply #14)

mahina

(17,649 posts)
106. You wrote earlier about being unable to get groceries.
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:34 PM
Apr 2020

Did that get sorted out? Where are you located if you don’t mind my asking?

I sure hope things are going better. Aloha.

CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
109. No groceries
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 05:54 PM
Apr 2020

I ordered $165.00 worth of nuts, dried fruit, energy bars and whatever else there was to eat from a health food store back east yesterday.

I'm way up north here in no. California in a rural part of Humboldt.

I called the hot-line for elderly/disabled being given out by Gov. Newsom and that was a joke!

Myriad of calls with nothing to offer but another number to call.

The dried food I ordered will arrive in abt. 2 weeks if lucky.

In the meantime, I do not know what else I can do!

Sickening situation at best!

Thanks for asking!

Midnight Writer

(21,753 posts)
15. Just had the hate radio on in my car. "The ones most likely to die are the least productive people."
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:03 PM
Apr 2020

Because of this, the economy should recover very quickly, by the end of April this will all be over, blah, blah, blah.

For people who don't believe in evolution, they sure embrace survival of the fittest.

Efilroft Sul

(3,579 posts)
23. I'm appalled he said that.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:36 PM
Apr 2020

And he should know better that this virus is an equal-opportunity, all-ages killer. That damn fool.

agingdem

(7,849 posts)
69. true
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:37 PM
Apr 2020

and does the next Dr. Mengele start "experimenting" on those that are deemed not worthy to save?

wnylib

(21,446 posts)
89. How many times have people wondered
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 10:36 PM
Apr 2020

why people did not take a strong stand against the killing of the sick, elderly, and minorities? Why didn't the people band together to rebel? To overthrow the murderers?

If we do nothing, we are no better. Even in this time of social distancing, protests are possible, inside cars, with signs and posters.

Like the protests in Puerto Rico, we need to demand the resignation of Genocide Don and his cabal.

sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
75. Welp.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:56 PM
Apr 2020
"The ones most likely to die are the least productive people."


Well hate radio is describing themselves to a tee. Kudos to them, they have finally recognized their malignancy on society.

Thanks.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,853 posts)
24. It's going to happen in a lot of other countries.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:44 PM
Apr 2020

Even in non Covid-19 times, we spend far too much time, money, and medical resources treating people who are not going to live. Everyone needs to be realistic about what is worth treating and what is not. Doing absolutely everything just so someone can die a few days or weeks later, never having fully recovered consciousness, or possibly in terrible pain the entire time, makes zero sense.

And yes, I myself have DNR orders. I also have an up-to-date will along with medical directives.

homegirl

(1,428 posts)
99. Everyon should
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 12:55 PM
Apr 2020

have an up to date DNR, or the opposite directive.

When my mother went to the hospital for the last time she pinned her DNR to her gown.

wnylib

(21,446 posts)
25. Not only doing nothing to help, but
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:44 PM
Apr 2020

actively putting up obstacles that make treatment and tracking more difficult. He is deliberately killing people.

wnylib

(21,446 posts)
34. So, do we as a nation just stand by and watch
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:57 PM
Apr 2020

it happen? Or do we call him out for it, loudly, relentlessly, everywhere?

If we do not act, we are complicit.

bdamomma

(63,845 posts)
41. tRump
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:21 PM
Apr 2020

and his thuggish regime have such disdain for us. We need to do more than call him out.

He is killing Americans, but why, for his re-election?? is he killing Democrats??? but his followers will get it too.

He does not care about us only about himself. Just think hopeful that he will contract it.

wnylib

(21,446 posts)
77. So what would be more
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 08:12 PM
Apr 2020

than calling him out?

What I have in mind is to raise the alarm everywhere so often that his deliberate killing of Americans becomes so commonly accepted that he fears the American people.

bdamomma

(63,845 posts)
78. yes
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 08:39 PM
Apr 2020

we need to put the fear of us in him. He lives in his sick bubble we could pop it.

Oh not to be funny, but we never saw his tax returns either.

Lonestarblue

(9,981 posts)
26. As this virus moves into rural areas, Trump supporters will be affected.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:45 PM
Apr 2020

Those Republican states that refused to expand Medicaid have a large proportion of Trump supporters, and a number of rural hospital closures. When they get sick, where will they go if there is no hospital nearby? Rural hospital closures have become a serious concern in recent years, and they have been worse in red states. The local doctors who care for infected people in these areas will be under equipped because hospitals have ventilators, not doctors.

SWBTATTReg

(22,114 posts)
53. My fear (and it happened before CV) was that when in outstate MO, someone got seriously ...
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:53 PM
Apr 2020

ill/sick and couldn't be treated at the local small hospital (what few remained), that they would ship them to the big cities (KCMO, STLMO, Rolla MO, and other larger cities in MO). Now, this could seriously negatively impact the abilities of these 'big city' hospitals to treat their local residents who had supported these hospitals in their immediate region for decades and longer.

There is one small local chain of hospitals that served in outstate MO, but they closed like 10+- smaller hospitals over the years, resulting in fewer beds available to rural residents.

I hope when things settle down, that these people, closing these hospitals (in search of even greater profits) pay the price in doing so, business as usual. Localities will need to step up and be more aggressive in whether to allow their limited hospital resources to be so severely limited by those who sole interest, is only more profit. I know that some hospitals may (especially the smaller ones) have to be subsidized, but wouldn't that be a price that those who wish to live in outstate MO (and other states w/ large rural areas too) pay?

rainin

(3,011 posts)
31. I'm just going to say it. Republicans die. Democrats, we save.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:53 PM
Apr 2020

Elections matter. This is on them. We need to save ourselves.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
33. What are the point criteria? Paying hush $ to a porn star and partying on the beach during
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 05:55 PM
Apr 2020

a pandemic should move people right to the bottom of the list.

Age should not be the only factor. There are plenty of low-quality millennials (anyone filmed wearing tan pants and carrying a tiki torch comes to mind).

What a shit-show that this is even being discussed.

sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
37. Please do not mistake these caregivers, Doctors, for the TRUMP Admin.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:04 PM
Apr 2020

I have a niece on the front lines that is forced to wear a rain slicker backwards as PPE.

It is called triage, save as many as you can. You can not save them all. Yes age is a factor as well as health.

sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
76. I can't even imagine.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 08:11 PM
Apr 2020

Fact is the ones that make that decision, heartbreaking for them. It is triage. Save who you can. Then...then you have ones that have to carry it out after working day and night to try to save them...they leave them to die.

Italy did it as well. A patient codes, leave them and move on.

This is heartbreaking and this Admin does not give one dayum about them.

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
39. It helps the triage person
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:05 PM
Apr 2020

to have "something" to aide them in designating who lives/dies. An objective, rational, decision making document.

It would help the decision maker to not agonize and/or internalize any guilt or do any second guessing.....

Believe me, it won't help to completely erase those memories, those actions will be with him/her the rest of their lives.....

I really really really feel for any person tasked with the need to make those decisions........or charged with carrying them out.......

I can't imagine how Trump and the entire Republican cabal can sleep at night.

THEY ALL HAVE BLOOD ON THIER HANDS AND THEIR SOULS......



DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
90. Triage officer in a Mass Casualty Incident
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 11:40 PM
Apr 2020

Last edited Sat Apr 4, 2020, 02:22 AM - Edit history (1)

ties a black tag on the ones that are dead or ones not to get any attention because the resources available are far less than the overwhelming number of victims........and the resources are best used on the other massive casualties......

Interesting that civilian triage, and military triage, classify the sick/wounded very differently.....

In this case if a respirator is the deciding factor in survival, and you only have one respirator, then the decision is not based on "no hope for survival".

cayugafalls

(5,640 posts)
56. Money skips you to the head of the line.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:04 PM
Apr 2020

I saw it many times at MD Andersen when my mom had cancer. The Saudi Prince who built them a research lab had a crew of Doctors each month that flew to Saudi Arabia for his treatment. Several local rich people had special privileges and sometimes they would shut down entire sections when they were being brought in to get treatment.

Money rules.

sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
80. Well this crisis is different.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:11 PM
Apr 2020

See NY.

Thousands packed into a hospital. Beds in the hallways. Patients treated in wheel chairs in the ER. No beds. No ventilators. No PPE for the staff. The staff is literally walking in naked and treating those with a highly contagious disease.


6K have died in NY alone. 85 refrigerator trucks have been sent to NY to house the dead. I haven't read one thing about a rich person getting special treatment. This comes down to triage and I trust the doctors and nurses.


I agree with you on one thing. Money does rule and trump will pocket all he can.

iluvtennis

(19,852 posts)
48. Exactly, Italy had to determine who was more viable to live and treat them and push the
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:41 PM
Apr 2020

others in the hallway to die. And now the "richest" country in the world faces the same situation. We were warned.

Ford_Prefect

(7,895 posts)
49. This is going to erase whole sections of population in the way wars erased generations,
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:48 PM
Apr 2020

towns and communities.

So far as we know, right now there will not be a concentration of that loss except as more of us over 50 might be affected. I am talking about massive extinction on a global scale. It will be wide-spread and this is only the first phase.

So far as we know, this is not like the flu in that survivors can get it more than once. Survival can depend on access to very expensive intensive care and on the time from detection to remediation, no to mention availability of correctly equipped medical service.

So far as we know, this is expected to hurt those less able to pay, those less informed, those whose health is already compromised more frequently and more severely.

Charles Dickens would recognize the post-pandemic world as well as those who engineered it.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
51. We are at the same state as Italy NOW and we are moving beyond quickly...
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:50 PM
Apr 2020

As a nation our response is grossly inadequate. I can't imagine why?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
55. Keep in mind that...
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 06:57 PM
Apr 2020

It is also the Neo-liberal policies and economics that have contributed to this debacle. The Republicans and Oligarchs have been pushing that hard for decades.

It is simple: If it is not profitable to be prepared for a future emergency, regardless of what kind it is, then there won't be preparations made.

The same applies to our food distribution system, (JIT) and other critical infrastructure. There is no fat stored, just profits gained.

ffr

(22,669 posts)
57. The 44% of Cult45 still supporting dotard will be in this pool of point system patients too.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:07 PM
Apr 2020

If tRump inadvertently kills his own supporters, will he finally lose some of his support or will it be filled in by other Cultists?

Something to ponder, I suppose.

delisen

(6,043 posts)
61. If the Harvard doctor is not also denouncing the Trump administration s/he is being unethical.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:14 PM
Apr 2020

Withholding life saving equipment is unethical if not criminal.

Where are the presidents of these untaxed universities, the deans of the medical schools and schools of finance, law schools? Are they just ignoring the big picture, keeping low profiles, and drawing up contingency plans for their own survival and benefit?

Why does their silence remind me of Adolf Eichmann.

The Harvard doctor may be a fine person-I do not know his particular story-but it made me realize that there are too many voices in high places that we are not hearing from.

sheshe2

(83,751 posts)
65. He would be wrong.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:33 PM
Apr 2020

His peeps, the uneducated that believed him when he called it a hoax and then doubled down will be dying in record numbers. Pretty sure he will find a way to blame Obama.

AllaN01Bear

(18,191 posts)
66. remember all the death panels that the rs screamed that what obama and obama care would create ?
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:35 PM
Apr 2020

here they are . not obama , but trump death panels .

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
70. Best health care system in the world.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 07:39 PM
Apr 2020


How much bullshit do we have to swallow? I have never seen a failure like this.

Tink41

(537 posts)
79. Testing
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 08:48 PM
Apr 2020

I've felt this way for quite awhile, it's the reason they are not testing. I've read the accounts of people who have recently lost loved ones to this. The medical community will wait until you are barely breathing, admit you and either treat you or not depending on their assessment. Read the stories it's obvious that's the plan.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
83. Indeed. I would not want to have to make decisions like that.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:32 PM
Apr 2020

But I fully understand that someone has to do so.

They have my respect and sympathy.

-Laelth

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
84. It happened in Italy and elsewhere.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:36 PM
Apr 2020

I’ve been expecting it here, and it will probably be worse given this country’s deniers of reality.

Jamastiene

(38,187 posts)
85. I always feel guilty when a person with family and friends dies.
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:46 PM
Apr 2020

I have none of either and am alone. I wish there was a system for those of us who are extras to tell medical personnel (in case we cannot) to go help those who are loved and have family and friends who care about them and we are not worth trying to save.

If I do get this, I have already decided not to go to the hospital or leave home. The fire ants will pick me clean before the taxes on my property are due and they they will only have a skeleton to deal with. Hopefully, that will give important, worthwhile people a chance.

I despise being an extra, taking up space on this planet, but I despise even more than that that I don't even want to live and others who are worthwhile and loved, die. There is no justice. It makes me nauseated and even more depressed as time goes by in all of this.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
88. Are you kidding?
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 10:00 PM
Apr 2020

You’re a climate change HERO, if nothing else!

Having no children is the most significant impact on carbon emissions.

So that’s one way of looking at it.

Runningdawg

(4,516 posts)
86. I'm high risk, it seems only a matter of time and I won't be going to the hospital
Fri Apr 3, 2020, 09:51 PM
Apr 2020

I have a living will that says I will NOT be hooked up to a vent. I die at home, one way or another.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
91. AND YET... This government will do nothing....
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 12:15 AM
Apr 2020

And Republicans are enjoying this destruction of the country, because all along, that was their plan. Make PUTIN GREAT AGAIN. #Assholes.

lark

(23,097 posts)
97. Government is hindering care for their personal profit and to destroy us.
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 12:31 PM
Apr 2020

They are bombing the system, destroying the ability of our healthcare system to actually provide care, pitting the states against each other so their handpicked companies can suck out the most profits and so that the goods don't go to Democratic strongholds and get wasted and people in blue states die. They are ok with people in red states dying too, think they will be more quiet about it so don't care about them either. They only care for profits for the rich and want to kill off the rest of us or make it so we have to work for pennies without healthcare and die young.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
102. Point system? I think Narcissism and Sociopathy
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 01:41 PM
Apr 2020

should be a big part of that point system. Keeping the Orange Narcissist off a ventilator should be a high priority.

usaf-vet

(6,181 posts)
105. Trauma and emergency medicine providers, military and civilian have always used point systems. See..
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 04:04 PM
Apr 2020

... the Rule of Nines.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513287/

Tough job tough decisions.

CountAllVotes

(20,868 posts)
110. Welcome to the Democratic Underground Odawg!!!
Sat Apr 4, 2020, 07:11 PM
Apr 2020
and Welcome!!!

I suppose these right-to-lifers are praying over their hoard of hydroxychloroquine



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