Posted on 10/18/2009 8:30:29 PM PDT by varina davis
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I just got an email this morning about my newborn nephew who was refused admission to a hospital because he has swine flu. They don’t want swine flu around the sick kids there. That makes some sense, I’m sure, but I have to wonder if it’s because of his other diagnosis. He just received a diagnosis of a rare disorder that will cause severe retardation. I’m wondering if ObamaThink / ReichMorality is hitting.
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No. It would be "racist" to turn away ANY dem victim group - - illegals, gays, and blacks go to the head of the line at the hospital. YOU die.
Almost all large scale emergency plans call for keeping the truly doomed and the probably going to make it on their own out of hospitals for the people who need and can benefit from hospital care. No city in the country has enough hospital beds for 10% of he people to get sick or injured, so if things get ugly tough decision will have to be made.
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Well if we get to Epidemic state (as opposed to Pandemic), clinics or other facilities might need to be set up to handle different illnesses and injuries, keeping them separate from the flu. I mean, if we’re talking epidemic such as 1918, millions upon millions are going to be critically and mortally ill. You simply cannot have someone come into a hospital for their twice weekly chemo under those circumstances. An outpatient clinic away from hospital might be the better answer to that, since most chemo is administered outpt anyway.
Or newborns, babies and toddlers who are sick with non-flu illnesses or have compromised systems - why on earth would you want to bring them to a hospital where a severe flu is raging? Some plan should be in place for situations such as this, not necessarily because of the swine flu but any epidemic. Most hospitals have more than one building, certain areas could be quarantine areas, instead of everyone piling into one ER waiting room or going into the main hospital for chemo or your mammogram or whatever.
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