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Isn't this what republicans said about Obama-care?
Texas county, overwhelmed with Covid-19, will deny treatment to those deemed unlikely to survive
The situation in Texas has deteriorated to the point where one countys health authority has implemented a triage committee for the purpose of determining which Covid-19 patients the countys single hospital will treat, and which patients will be sent home to die.
According to the McAllen, Texas affiliate WSYR:
Full atricle here........
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/23/1963124/-Texas-county-overwhelmed-with-Covid-19-will-deny-treatment-to-those-deemed-unlikely-to-survive?utm_campaign=trending
LakeArenal
(28,798 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)we are a hateful and selfish state.
LakeArenal
(28,798 posts)14 siblings. All crazy racists. Yes, including my mom.
marble falls
(56,996 posts)still mad there was a black man in the white house. And really loves Trump.
LakeArenal
(28,798 posts)marble falls
(56,996 posts)very seriously. My wife's sister moved down from Utah in January to take care of the MiL and their politics measure up. Since Covid, we've been over only three or four times. Everybodie's on the phone daily.
Ms. Toad
(33,992 posts)Sending patients with active COVID 19 - likely to need extensive care since they are near death - to loved ones to infect them. Creating the next wave of COIVD 19 patients to be triaged to determine who is too sick to live, sending them home to create the next wave of COVID 19 patients, and so on.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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.
peggysue2
(10,819 posts)She predicted the future. With a twist.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)dalton99a
(81,386 posts)Initech
(100,029 posts)Fuck you conservatives!