“And unless the military is fully mobilized and we create something we’ve never had before, which is some kind of national enlistment of medical personnel moved to the most urgent needs in the country constantly … if we don’t have that we’re going to see hospitals simply unable to handle so many people who could be saved.”
Of course he does. Because all of the important people live in NYFC, only their needs are important and nowhere else counts. Same as with Coumo's little rant a week or so ago when he found that NY was getting a portion of the ventilator stockpile, not everything as some were going to places not NY (I would have said other States but I'm not sure he gets that concept). Sucks to be on the receiving end of triage, deal with it.
I wonder how many New Yorkers (particularly the ones in "the City") realize the outpouring of support and rage at AQ after 9/11 from Flyover Country was in spite of the fact that NYFC was the target, not because of it. (i.e. we were pissed and rushed to help because those were Americans that were attacked, where they lived was irrelevant).
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
“And unless the military is fully mobilized and we create something we’ve never had before, which is some kind of national enlistment of medical personnel moved to the most urgent needs in the country constantly … if we don’t have that we’re going to see hospitals simply unable to handle so many people who could be saved.”
Sounds more like he wants conscription and forced relocation of medical professionals.
That was kind of done in WW2 some things. My grandfather was technically working for the army as a railroad engineer although he was doing the same job at the same place he worked before the war started.
And Selective Service would have no idea who one their list are actually doctors, nurses, etc.
Actually, the number of nurses whose names are in the draft database has got to be really small, since most nurses are women, and women don't register for the draft.
So it wouldn't be a bill to crank up the draft as it exists, it would have to be a bill to require the registration of medical personnel (MD, PA, RN, NP, LPN, etc) and then 'draft' them.
Yeah, that was as a result of The Lightbringer administration opening all the ground combat arms to women. Since the justification for the draft was mainly that it was needed to put bodies in the infantry (especially infantry), armor, artillery, and combat engineers, and when Selective Service was enacted, those were male only (along with Navy combat ships, AF combat planes, and more I"m sure I'm forgetting), since all those allow women now, women should be subject to Selective Service.
Interestingly, by the mid to later stages of WWII, the draft was being used as much as a manpower/talent allocation tool (voluntary enlistment was stopped at some point, but I forget exactly when) than as a simple tool to put bodies in the ranks. This was mainly at the behest of the (ground) Army and Marines, because the Navy and Air Corps were skimming off all the top tier service eligible men by getting them to volunteer for what was seen as a cushier, less hazardous form of service. (Don't tell that to 8th AF bomber crews up til early 1944, or submariners. But being Air Corps ground crew, or any form of surface Navy service was definitely less hazardous and less arduous than being in a ground combat branch of the Army or Marines. Yeah, being on a destroyer crew in the north Atlantic convoys probably wasn't much fun, but you had a dry bunk, mostly hot meals, and a pretty low casualty rate.)
