the.com/triage
the art of deciding who gets saved first when you can't save everyone.
means a system for sorting problems or patients by urgency so limited resources go where they matter most.
from from french trier, to sort or sift, first used by napoleonic army surgeons sorting the wounded, then formalized in world war one field hospitals.
three tierstreat now, treat later, beyond help
color codedred yellow green black tags on wrists
not fairnessdeliberately ignores who arrived first
for instance
er waiting rooms — chest pain jumps a broken finger, every single day
software bug triage — engineering teams rank crashes over typos before every release
disaster response — fema and red cross tag victims within minutes of arrival