Doctors in the pay of federal government agencies including the
Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services have
concluded that the already ill, the weak, the severely injured and the
elderly will have to "forgo" life.

According to the report, which appears in the May edition of Chest, the
medical journal of the American College of Chest Physicians, those who
won't be treated will include:

* People older than 85.
* Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from
car crashes and shootings.
* Severely burned patients older than 60.
* Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced
Alzheimer's disease.
* Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure,
lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes.

Designated hospital "triage teams" will ultimately decide who gets
treated and who is left to perish.

Dr. Asha Devereaux, lead writer of the task force report, told the AP
when (our emphasis) pandemic flu or another widespread health care
disaster hits." "the proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint
for hospitals 'so that everybody will be thinking in the same way'

"Prior to the rationing of critical care resources, hospitals and
surrounding areas must first experience a “trigger” event that includes
a declared state of emergency and lack of critical equipment or
infrastructure." the report states.

"The decision to initiate emergency mass critical care (EMCC) must occur
in conjunction with local and regional Medical Emergency Operations
Command authority and not by individual hospitals."

"If a mass casualty critical care event were to occur tomorrow, many
people with clinical conditions that are survivable under usual health
care system conditions may have to forgo life-sustaining interventions
owing to deficiencies in supply or staffing," the report continues.

"While the notion of rationing health care is unpleasant, the report
could help the public understand that it will be necessary," a senior
vice president at American Hospital Association, said.
Critics and commentators have pointed out that the proposed rules are
discriminatory and effectively exclude care for the poorest, most
disadvantaged citizens in an emergency.

Others have noted that the report may set a grim precedent for other
disasters such as a repeat of a Hurricane Katrina type situation.

We have previously reported on moves to use a disease outbreak as
justification to suspend Constitutional rights.

Last September we reported the fact that the World Health Organization
and the U.N. have been handed control over response procedures in the
event of a pandemic outbreak in the U.S. after an agreement was signed
by President Bush at the 2007 Security and Prosperity Partnership
meeting, bypassing congressional approval.

The origins of the agreement can be traced back to 2005, when President
Bush announced a new International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic
Influenza to a High-Level Plenary Meeting of the U.N. General Assembly,
in New York.

In April of 2005 President Bush also added pandemic influenza to the
list of diseases for which quarantine is authorized.

China's zealous martial law tactics in dealing with SARS, home
detention, curfews, mandatory vaccinations, restriction of travel, are
the model for what could unfold in the US.

The federal blueprint for the exact same scenario was released and
picked up by the Associated Press a year earlier in 2004.

This is a slow process of conditioning the public to accept mandatory
vaccinations and restrictions on mobility under a rule of martial law.

The ball started rolling back in 2001 when the Model States Emergency
Health Powers Act was passed, which allows for total government takeover
of every industry, vehicle, building, location, distribution process,
you name it.

And when this flu pandemic happens who will we blame? Surely not US
scientists playing around with the deadly 1918 Spanish flu virus at
"less than the maximum level of containment" according to the New
Scientist magazine.