Italy implemented harsh triage principles when its medical system was overwhelmed with a flood of COVID-19 patients, first  denying medical treatment to those afflicted over seventy-five years.  Without regard to an individual's physical age or lifestyle, seventy-five, and poof — one's elders' existence was declared disposable.  The triage logic ordained that a younger patient had a greater likelihood of survival and a more productive life ahead.  Well, that didn't last long.  As the system further collapsed, their triage threshold plummeted: no medical treatment, for COVID-19 sufferers, for anyone sixty or older.  Obviously, the Italians didn't buy the meme that sixty is the new forty.  A crash of the United States' fragmented medical system is one of the fears that have compelled political leaders,  in the majority of states,  to shut down all but essential...(Read Full Post)