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Re: Deadly Flu Virus
Enforcement would be a challenge. I would venture to guess that many nurses and other health care workers would toss in their licenses rather than leave their families at such a time. And just how would they KEEP the health care workers at the treatment centers? Shackles, threats, armed guards? Now really.
Health care workers are human beings, after all. Put the angelic portrayals aside, please. Yes, we are pledged to do our very best to assist the sick and dying but I don't recall signing anything that required me to give my life as a condition of employment. If a virus is so highly transmittable that virtually all who come in contact with it are in extreme danger of being infected and passing it on to loved ones and others, I could foresee health care workers bolting the hell out of that environment in droves. It is human nature, survival instinct---supercedes any employment contract, oath, or professional license.
Simply stated, we do not have the resources to deal with a huge pandemic. Not enough personnel, equipment---the logistics suck. People are going to die, period. As ugly as it sounds, triaging will be done to separate those with dismal prognoses from those who are viable.
Enforcement would be a challenge. I would venture to guess that many nurses and other health care workers would toss in their licenses rather than leave their families at such a time. And just how would they KEEP the health care workers at the treatment centers? Shackles, threats, armed guards? Now really.
Health care workers are human beings, after all. Put the angelic portrayals aside, please. Yes, we are pledged to do our very best to assist the sick and dying but I don't recall signing anything that required me to give my life as a condition of employment. If a virus is so highly transmittable that virtually all who come in contact with it are in extreme danger of being infected and passing it on to loved ones and others, I could foresee health care workers bolting the hell out of that environment in droves. It is human nature, survival instinct---supercedes any employment contract, oath, or professional license.
Simply stated, we do not have the resources to deal with a huge pandemic. Not enough personnel, equipment---the logistics suck. People are going to die, period. As ugly as it sounds, triaging will be done to separate those with dismal prognoses from those who are viable.
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