"...if 25 per cent of the population were infected that could cause major problems for the health service."Breezy Marsh and Davis Derbyshire of the Daily Mail reveal a horrifying (and dehumanizing) development within the wonderful world of government health care.
Thousands of patients could be denied NHS treatment and left to die under 'worst-case' emergency plans for a swine-flu epidemic.The blueprint would force doctors to 'play God' and prioritise intensive-care treatment for those most likely to benefit - ruling out patients with problems such as advanced cancer.
More than 100,000 cases were diagnosed last week alone in the UK. Although the disease has claimed 30 lives, many sufferers have experienced little more than a bad cold, raised temperature and cough.
However health experts are concerned that the H1N1 virus could mutate into something more severe. The scale of their concern is highlighted in the Department of Health's report: Pandemic Flu - Managing Demand and Capacity in Health Care Organisations.
Detailing plans to ration hospital treatment, the report warns that if half the population were infected, 6,600 patients per week would be competing for just under 4,000 intensive-care beds. Around 85 per cent of those beds could already be full with day-to-day emergencies.
To allocate ventilators, beds and intensive-care equipment doctors would have to 'score' patients on their health and prognosis as well as seriousness of their conditions. Those who failed to respond to treatment would be subject to 'reverse triage' - in which they were taken off ventilators and left in NHS 'dying rooms' with only painkillers to ease their suffering. (Read the full unedited story here)
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They are scaremongering like hell over this virus which for most people is nothing more than a few days in bed with a sore throat, a cough and heavy cold symptoms. I think I may have had it already and it was nothing. I have certainly had worse Asian flus that last for around six weeks. Just about all of the handful of people who died in the UK had other underlying health problems.
I have never had a flu shot and I'm not going to start now and I wouldn't touch this new vaccine they are trying to force on us with someone else's bargepole.
I came across this video the other day which, if you haven't already seen it, you might find interesting. It seems to rather back up my approach to this madness and you can find it at the following link.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mh9f_swine-flu-1976-propaganda_webcam
Great video link. Thanks, Barky!
Either way, it is an argument against socialized medicine. Reverse triage???? i think they call that being "thrown under the bus". Hmph!
Yup, Reverse Triage. 1984 is here.
Exactly. This is a good argument. If they want to scaremonger (which they do ... after all, the swine flu "pandemic" becomes another argument for "universal coverage" b/c we all need every one to be covered against this), then let 'em.
And point out what a disaster it will be when we have to stand in line to bled by leeches and such.
That being said, CBS is exactly right. This swine flu deal is a bunch of hooey. More hype born of the evil cocktail of the 24-hour news cycle mixed with the desire to control people.
Great job, Nick. You scare the hell out of me.
I once had SCIM flu. (Some C's Infected Me).
PS. I got better.
DC, it's amazing to me that the sewer (the evil 24-hr news cycle whores) continues to churn up Michael Jackson stories and will for a long time.
We're doomed , I say... doomed!!
And, BTW, you scare the hell outa me too. Bolt locks everywhere, my Texan friend.
Hogman,
I recommend that folks wander by your blog and read your latest post on government oversight.
http://hogday-afternoon.blogspot.com/
T'is but a thin end, but its a very big wedge.
Thanks for the honourable mention.
However health experts are concerned that the H1N1 virus could mutate into something more severe.
If you will humor me while I wax "Black Helicopters" for a moment...
...Or could be mutated into something more severe!
What better way to get people onboard with government run health care than manufacture a health crisis, at the precise time Obamacare is being "debated" in Congress?
This is all we need, doctors to start deciding who to kill.
As if they can't manage that well enough as it is already without having official sanction for their decisions.
My grandmother died in 1918 in the flu epidemic. She was 27. She died in two day. The handwritten hospital bill, which I have in my possession, was $12.00 and change.
This is what the morbid totalitarians in charge today wish for.
I know I've said it before, but the only thing liberalism makes cheaper is human lifee.
Wolfie,
I live in fear that I'll mutate into my uncle, Gitzi "The Squealer" Gallo.
Flyman, I'd take my chances with the doctors. I have a whole lot less trust in scumbag, douche bag, gasbag politicians.
Rhod, much of the rabble out there are expecting the Obama legislation to lead to exactly that... $12 medical insurance (free for illegal immigrants).
The illegals will get the beds.
Nickie, please take a look at this:
http://donttearmedown.com/
Well, this will be one way of reducing unemployment, not to mention competition for resources, energy, social security and medicare liability, etc.
Kid, you mean like Scrooge said? "Let them die and be done with it, and decrease the surplus population." Change we can believe in.
Thanks, Woody. I signed it. I'd also recommend others to visit. Thanks for the nod.
Kid, it's Soylent Green all over again.
Opie...
Nice Slam Dunk!!
Opus #6, Nickie Goomba,
Yes, I'm absolutely serious.
I personally believe government has inadverdently, or intentionally bankrupted social security and medicare, and given current population statistics (boomers) they find themselves as trapped animals.
Trapped animals will do anything.
I'd like to see a politician convince me that they are willing to spend billions/trillions to keep America's Greatest Generation on a comfortable vacation until they finally expire of natural causes.
Damn sad state of affairs.
Especially when most of these *%&#**&'s got into office promising to 'take care' of the people that have allowed themselves to think that's somehow a good idea anyway.
Nickie,
Yep, the suicide centers aren't far off.
Kid, we're serious too. The horrible scenario you describe is constantly running through our own minds. You may be right on the money.
It will probably start with legalization of so-called Assisted Suicide in all 50 states (mandated by Federal Decree).
Then, as in China, a limit will be on the number of children a woman can have in her lifetime. Any pregnancy over that number will be subject to state enforced abortions.
But don't expect to see the legislation come right out and say it, it will probably be hidden in some kind of health care or environmental protection bill.
I'm really begining to think that George Orwell was being optimistic when he wrote 1984!
Yeah, George "Bright Side" Orwell. Frightening.
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