The Four HorsemenGuidelines were announced today by a committee charged with deciding in case of pandemic whom to save and whom to abandon so as to conserve medical resources. The people on the committee were from the AMA, from Homeland Security, and so on.
Those selected for death are people over 85, those with serious mental impairment, burn victims over 60, severe trauma victims, those with severe chronic diseases, the poor, and anyone without good medical insurance.
Well, okay, they didn't actually admit to the last two, but whom is kidding whom here? The reason given for making the policy now is to condition the public to expect triage when it happens. The article closes with a reference to SARS having been unexpected. SARS is also known as bird flu, and is thought to be a strain of the Spanish influenza that killed 20 million people in 1918.
They are planning for it now, right now.
How can there be such possibilities when today is a sunny day in May and all the world is smiliing? Life is so various and hard to encompass.
Ok, so you're not over 85 yet. If you don't get burned, severe trauma, or a chronic disease, you only have to worry about that pesky "serious mental impairment" bit. That could be tricky. It all depends on who is doing the judging.
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