Gov’t plans to get rid of disabled in “emergencies”
State governments are making plans on how to deal with disabled people during emergency situations. New York State has devised a set of triage standards that are to be followed by doctors during times of emergency. Originally public views were to be put into these standards, but that quickly fell by the way side as people found out what the state had planned to do to the disabled. Essentially those with poor prognosis, or severe and irreversible conditions will not be allowed to use ventilators or have access to the ICU. Most people that are disabled or are on dialysis would be turned away from the hospital, and if they were on respirators because of a virus like H1N1, the ventilator would be removed and placed on someone that had a better chance of survival. Presently, New York law prohibits this Nazi era idea of arbitrarily deciding who lives and dies based on whether they are in a wheelchair or not. However, New York officials are working on creating a law that would allow the governor to turn off that law any time he wanted to for as long as he wanted. Supposedly the law would only be used by the governor in times of emergency like the virus outbreak of 1918, but what would stop them from using the law because of money problems? Even if such a law were given to the g0vernpor to use, other laws would open doctors to lawsuits for taking loved ones off of ventilators because it was thought that others would have a better chance of survival. (Source: ProPublica)
One would think that this was the script from a “B” movie in Hollywood, but states all over the country are debating the use of the New York protocols to determine what to do during an emergency and how to ration supplies that run low during a virus outbreak. However, public opinion has been strongly against any kind of rationing like this, and officials have worked hard to keep the public out of meetings that discuss these protocols. Our only safety net is that most states have not implemented this plan as law and most are worried what would happen to public opinion if they did put it into law. While officials are trying to state that this is for the national good and that work must be done to make sure medical care is available neglect to explain how this is going to occur. No one in any meetings to discuss the New York Protocols are willing to say that the will take ventilators and other lifesaving medical equipment from a person merely because they are disabled. We have not heard of something this sinister since the Nazi plan to rid the Reich of people that were “broken or not whole”. People that were forced to live in nursing homes because of disabilities were carted off to the same killing centers that the Jews were sent to. This law appears to allow the state to do the same type of thing under the veil of doctors and hospitals trying to give care to those that desperately need it.
People that live in states that frequently have disasters like Florida, Louisiana and California need to look carefully and see what their state officials are working on in this arena. If your state is looking to implement the New York Protocols you need to call everyone you know to put a stop to it. If this is allowed to become law then the governor of your state can decide at will that the disabled do not deserve to live and will be denied medical care that they may need to survive because others are felt to have a better chance to live. The control of life at this level is disgusting and it is sad that any doctors would be willing to put time and effort to make this a reality. No one should have the basic right to control who lives and who dies without having the family involved.
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