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AIUI the way emergency care in the US works is it's basically strictly a FIFO of those in need of urgent care. You treat what's in front of you in need of life

AIUI the way emergency care in the US works is it's basically strictly a FIFO of those in need of urgent care. You treat what's in front of you in need of life-saving care you're capable of providing, and start turning away what you can't treat for lack of capacity. This is exceptionally vulnerable to DoS attack, which is what we're effectively seeing. The FIFO will be overwhelmingly full of ivermectin overdoses in pandemic hot spots coinciding with widespread belief that self-administered ivermectin is effective treatment for said pandemic. Nobody wants to be in a position of prioritizing one patient's urgent needs over another, which is why this FIFO approach has become the standard; it's the non-judgemental (and lowest liability) option.

France_is_bacon 5y ago
I understand what you are saying, but that is for normal times, when the healthcare system can do that. Generally, there are beds open at multiple hospitals. However, extreme times call for extreme measures. We are in a national and global emergency, and those rules should be suspended. It's the same exact thing as war. Nobody in regular life would send 500 people on a boat that is known it will sink and drown every single person. How horrible would someone be to do that? One of the worst mass murderers in history of the USA. But, in war, it's ok to send 500 people to certain death, if it is a ruse to draw the enemy there so you can outflank the enemy. Extreme times call for extreme measures, therefore the rules of emergency care no longer apply. If a hospital needs more beds, kick the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers out of their bed and put a person in there whose leg was cut off by a lawn mower or whatever. Screw FIFO. Extreme times call for extreme measures, and idiots who are deliberate anti-'s should be the lowest on the list, and get bumped for everyone else. F--ck them. And, as I have written elsewhere here, those people should have the courage of their conviction to not go into the hospital anyways, with all their denying. They should say to themselves, "Whoa, guess I was so wrong, but because it was my choice, I'm not going to take a bed from someone else who didn't make a sh-tty decision like I did." But, they are almost all cowards with no self-integrity.

France_is_bacon 5y ago

I understand what you are saying, but that is for normal times, when the healthcare system can do that. Generally, there are beds open at multiple hospitals. However, extreme times call for extreme measures. We are in a national and global emergency, and those rules should be suspended. It's the same exact thing as war. Nobody in regular life would send 500 people on a boat that is known it will sink and drown every single person. How horrible would someone be to do that? One of the worst mass murderers in history of the USA. But, in war, it's ok to send 500 people to certain death, if it is a ruse to draw the enemy there so you can outflank the enemy. Extreme times call for extreme measures, therefore the rules of emergency care no longer apply. If a hospital needs more beds, kick the anti-maskers and anti-vaxers out of their bed and put a person in there whose leg was cut off by a lawn mower or whatever. Screw FIFO. Extreme times call for extreme measures, and idiots who are deliberate anti-'s should be the lowest on the list, and get bumped for everyone else. F--ck them. And, as I have written elsewhere here, those people should have the courage of their conviction to not go into the hospital anyways, with all their denying. They should say to themselves, "Whoa, guess I was so wrong, but because it was my choice, I'm not going to take a bed from someone else who didn't make a sh-tty decision like I did." But, they are almost all cowards with no self-integrity.