These discussions aren’t theoretical anymore. The avalanche has already started. It’s too late for the pebbles to vote.
If politicians start deciding who lives and who dies, it is too late. It is also too late if these decisions are made ad-hoc, bedside. These discussions need to happen now with qualified folks who can make these touch decisions before it’s too late.
News out of Italy already had indications hospitals were basically turning away the old and infirm in places. If you don’t define what “infirm” means in those situations, you better believe some hospital administrator somewhere is going to put “mentally ill” or other arbitrary conditions on this stuff.
If the trajectory goes the way the medical professionals claim, instead of how a large part of the US political machine claims, and these guidelines aren’t hammered out, IMHO, we are going to see some very, very atrocious behaviour, vs yet more heroic defiance and stepping up by bedside staff - who, as I said, should not have to be put in that position.
