McAllen Tx starting "Death Panels"

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5. It's inevitable when you don't have the resources

You can either do it Hobson's Choice style, whoever gets on a ventilator first, regardless of condition or co-morbidities, and you dedicate staffing and resources to save an 87-year-old diabetic smoker while the 31-year-old waits. Or you take a look at the 50 patients eligible for 10 ventilators, and make some real hard decisions.

Thank you, President Trump.

And thank you, Senate Republicans.

Let's be sure that in our anger and dismay about this situation that we keep in mind whose feckless leadership brought us to this point.