Utah Preparing for Triage Scenario

[Fenixgoon]

If current coronavirus trends continue. This was entirely avoidable

Utah hospitals could start rationing health care at overwhelmed facilities, hospital association says | CNN

Utah hospitals could be days away from using a patient's age, health and other factors to decide who can remain in overcrowded intensive care units due to an onslaught of Covid-19 cases.

www.cnn.com

Mods feel free to merge with covid-45 catchall thread, but I felt this was worthy of its own topic

 

[twjr]

You're likely to see a repeat of Italy or New York early on in the pandemic if that trajectory is maintained.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Don't care, this is what Utah voted for.

 

[Zorba]

Don't care, this is what Utah voted for.

And will again in a week.

 

[Sunburn74]

And will again in a week.

Yup. Don't care. They made their bed to get catholics on the court. Catholics on the court can save them.

 

[theeedude]

And will again in a week.

Elections have consequences.

 

[theeedude]

Yup. Don't care. They made their bed to get catholics on the court. Catholics on the court can save them.

Maybe ACB will do some tongue speaking thoughts and prayers for them.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I'm not entirely sure why this should matter. Were 8 months into this thing and a states case count is on the upswing for the first time? I mean, you only have yourselves to blame. So meh

 

[chowderhead]

Republicans and their death cults attending super spreader events now leading to the death panels that they predicted with the ACA.

 

[iRONic]

You made your bed now die in it.

 

[Jhhnn]

Gloating over the misfortune of others is no way to deal with the pandemic. I'm sure that many among the sick & the dying did the right things, none of which are 100% effective other than becoming a hermit. Leadership matters. Trump & the GOP have failed us all.

 

[trenchfoot]

Well from the looks of things in the Trump World, everything is peachy keen, the downtrodden ingrates who don't appreciate what Trump has done to the nation are all liberals and socialists and illegal immigrants from south of the border, the wall is being built no matter who pays for it, there is no pandemic or if there is one "the corner got turned" whatever the fvck that means and the rich are getting much richer and everybody else can simply go fvck themselves, well except for those folks who vote for Trump of course because Trump needs every living ignorant sucker in the nation that can vote to rally around him and keep him out of jail.

So then, what's this drivel about people dying from the COVID hoax when people die all the time anyway? What's much more important is keeping Trump in office and there are millions of folks who would risk getting infected from what Trump just got infected with because they're stupid enough to think they'll never get infected themselves and especially so at a Trump rally where all the people that go to them are somehow immune and wearing masks is being disloyal to the party and cowardly.

That's the Trump World folks. Do we really need four more years of that kind of mass hysteria? A world in which reality is an inconvenient fact of life that can be ignored at will with no consequence, no penalty and certainly nothing that anyone needs to be held accountable for?

 

[outriding]

Gloating over the misfortune of others is no way to deal with the pandemic. I'm sure that many among the sick & the dying did the right things, none of which are 100% effective other than becoming a hermit. Leadership matters. Trump & the GOP have failed us all.

Who cares, we are winning.

 

[Moonbeam]

Gloating over the misfortune of others is no way to deal with the pandemic. I'm sure that many among the sick & the dying did the right things, none of which are 100% effective other than becoming a hermit. Leadership matters. Trump & the GOP have failed us all.

What do you suggest I do with my Trump Derangement Syndrome Rage, kick my cat. How do I handle my contempt and disgust with that man who has destroyed so much, has caused such pain, who will do so much more damage if he isn't voted out of office. Why does he get to shit on the world and I have to hold back on acting out my own pain? What resource could I have to tap. Does not misery love company. How do I rise above it. I can tell you that my rage is enormous and my desire for compassion has gone MIA.

 

[sandorski]

Trump sees his Defeat coming and becomes increasingly irresponsible with Covid simultaneously. This is the Kool-Aid moment.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Gloating over the misfortune of others is no way to deal with the pandemic. I'm sure that many among the sick & the dying did the right things, none of which are 100% effective other than becoming a hermit. Leadership matters. Trump & the GOP have failed us all.

I'm not gloating, I'm just saying I don't give a shit. These people stuck me with Trump and thus got a family member and a friend of mine killed by COVID-45 so I'm not sad they'll finally also get to experience the horrific consequences of their decision.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Who cares, we are winning.

That's pretty much the sentiment from conservatives, so meh.

 

[HomerJS]

Fake news
hoax
Liberal media
Never Trumpers

 

[MtnMan]

Probably be checking voter registration to see which party they are registered as.

 

[Sunburn74]

Gloating over the misfortune of others is no way to deal with the pandemic. I'm sure that many among the sick & the dying did the right things, none of which are 100% effective other than becoming a hermit. Leadership matters. Trump & the GOP have failed us all.

Trump and the GOP failed us all. Utah very strongly helped put him there and advance his agenda. Also when senate Dems and reps are pushing stimulus bills to give lots of money to hospitals, utah reps and senators are killing these bills. Finally, utah senators could be working on the US covid response but they chose to take 3 weeks to put a Catholic lady on the court instead because that's what Utah wants. So you get what you voted for.