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Michael Downey 🧢

🚨 Our local hospitals have switched to "crisis standards of care", the disaster-level triage mode where they decide who to treat based upon their overall likely outcome.

😷 The pandemic is anything but over. Please act accordingly.

oregonlive.com/health/2022/12/

oregonlivePortland hospitals shift to crisis care standards for adults as hospitalizations climbBy Fedor Zarkhin | The Oregonian/OregonLive

@downey
I heard kaiser has a 3 day wait for urgent care here in Portland. I shudder to think what ERs are like.

@downey Austerity fails to provide & maintain Adequate Medical Care
Only our Currency-Issuing-Self-Govt can afford the provision of People well trained & well paid in all areas (eyes-ears-teeth-body-mind) of non-pandemic Human Health Care which number may then provide pandemic care when needed
Such readiness is too great a cost to bear by For-Money-Profit firms
note the reality of pre-Covid-19
youtu.be/DoMPlG5kgNE
youtu.be/LuFNRfIibxU
youtu.be/GrT0mB0-B_4

@downey at first glance I thought that read, overall likely income