say "we can be sued or we can damage equipment or we can fail,
...or I can never work in my profession again (in the US), or I can lose my home because agency malpractice won't cover me, we might even get some time in jail "if we fail", but that's ok because I really hate my wife and kids.
See, if you lose your license/cert in one state for gross disregard of protocol/policy/however your state phrases it, you won't get a new license (legally) elsewhere. You've become a liability. I like 7-11 clerks. I'm glad we have them. I don't want to have to make that my career.
I know where you're coming from. I believe in the sanctity of life. I've spent a whoooole lotta time working with EDPs of a bunch of different flavors.
There has been more info: now apparently the Dept is going to allow untrained responders to respond. That will continue until a few of them die. It will be rescinded again. At least there was only one dead this time around.