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Old Aug 30, 2021 | 9:57 pm
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Originally Posted by invisible
If this is going to be confirmed I wish the hospital and anyone associated with such decisions will be sued to their last shirt.
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So what would be your preferred method for triaging b/c when you are at capacity you can either flip a coin or decide based on medical and ethical reasons. I'd argue that a vaxed heart attack or shooting victim should have priority over someone who landed in ICU due to their "freedoms" and selfishness. I'd actually welcome it if the hospital formalized such a protocol overseen by ethics experts b/c ultimately as it has been reported again and again recently due to COVID MDs are now faced with decisions whom to save and whom to let die. So you can be enraged as much as you want but this is the reality of what happens when hospitals are running out of beds and we should have protocols for that. And I'm serious about it since it's a fact based thread, what protocol would you propose when a hospital is nearing capacity and why? IMO these protocols should include whether someone was vaxed or not.

Also I wish we as a society can sue all those unvaxed people for prolonging the pandemic and generating unnecessary costs and externalities to responsible members of the society But hey wishes...

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