[softstorms]

What would be your own personal choice in this situation? Given we are a wide spread group in age and resourses? what choices would you make?

[quezen]

Twistedpupchaser, you are so, so right. And this fact is rarely spoken about when discussing scenarios, or watching disaster planning stories on TV. I guess some day if something like this would happen, as sorrowful as the event would be, it would be interesting, to say the least to watch events unfold.
Soft Storms, I am thinking about what you said. I am 60. I do not have a lot of material anything. I enjoy life, but then I am healthy. I just don't know. I personally think my old posterior is worth more than some of the 20something gang members I get stuck with treating so often, but that is a subjective view, I know.
I am somewhat of a fatalist, I guess what would happen, would happen.Would I go to work to save the high living and mightily insured?
How much bonus would you guys ask for?

[aeauooo]

If the pandemic caused by H5N1 is like the 1918 pandemic, the majority of morbidity and mortality will be among young, healthy adults. This suggests that the virus itself was not what caused mortality, but the immune response to it.

http://1918.pandemicflu.gov/index.htm

[bigjim]

Originally Posted by aleah

I do understand where all of you are coming from on this (especially with all of the experience all of you have had); it's just hard to see it put out there like that.

Sure it is, nobody wants to be part of letting someone die. But it is better to lay it out now, talk it over, and mentally figure out whether or not you can do it than to have to deal with it for the first time when the ER looks like Night of the Living Dead.

In my EMS training we had all the triage stuff. It only makes sense if the resources are limited. Time and supplies spent on someone who is likely going to die anyway means that more people can/will die who would have otherwise survived.

I have no plans to work during a pandemic anyway. I'll be home behind locked doors eating my stash of Beanie Weenie. But triage applies to a lot more situations than just a pandemic.

[CHATSDALE]

this is going on as we speak in burma and china

[barefootlady]

I won't be working wither. Too old and chronic condition would make me expendable, so I will stay home and care for myself and family as able. Sorry, but that is just the cold hard truth.