Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
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That's bad, but if this continues we're going to see much more of it. That article makes it sound like that particular hospital wasn't overwhelmed, so shame on them, but it's also Texas, which is having overwhelmed hospital problems to at least some degree, and that article reads as biased to me for some reason, so idk without more time than I have to do research of my own to find out what actually happened.
At some point people will be making triage decisions and in some places already have been, and much as I hate to say it "is disabled" is far from the worst methodology for such things. So I also find myself cringing at the whole "let's make sure disabled people get care no matter what" movement. People in the U.S. have lost the ability to deal with the world sometimes just sucks problems. Disabled people aren't less valuable, but if I have intensive care unit bed 5 with patient a the 20-year-old athlete and patient b the blind guy and I'm a doctor who has to make a decision by 5 minutes ago, well, someone's got to get it and I don't have time to go gather a full life history, if I don't make a decision based off the superficial evidence in front of me they both die. Neither side of that decision doesn't suck--even if you flip a coin it's a no-win situation. either you let a disabled person die and half the world hates you for it, you let a fully able-bodied person with a higher chance of surviving die and half the world hates you for it, or you admit that you flipped a coin and half the world hates you for it.
One of the reasons I get worked up about this stuff is just how few people I know don't get that that's an actual thing we actually have to do because the government fucked up, and the entire U.S. is just fundamentally incapable of understanding that this is the consequence or that lots of other countries have to make these decisions even in normal times. I will say I've never been tolerant of Trump supporters, but we literally have a president who is almost single-handedly responsible for teaching the U.S. what medical triage means, and still we get "everyone has good points".
If Seattle were worse than it is, I'd be paranoid at the moment because I am blind and this would mean maybe not getting treatment, but, well, that's life, not much I can do about it, and if there were I'm not sure I should.
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