From The New York Times:
The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?
With the coronavirus pandemic surging and initial vaccine supplies limited, the United States faces a hard choice: Should the country’s immunization program focus in the early months on the elderly and people with serious medical conditions, who are dying of the virus at the highest rates, or on essential workers, an expansive category encompassing Americans who have borne the greatest risk of infection?
“Teachers have middle-class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees,” he said. “Of course they should be treated better, but they are not among the most mistreated of workers.”
Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities. “Older populations are whiter, ” Dr. Schmidt said. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
But to protect older people more at risk, he called on the C.D.C. committee to also integrate the agency’s own “social vulnerability index.”
The index includes 15 measures derived from the census, such as overcrowded housing, lack of vehicle access and poverty, to determine how urgently a community needs health support, with the goal of reducing inequities.
See, the problem with giving the vaccine to the elderly – who are at greater risk – or teachers – who are essential- is that they are too white.
We can’t prioritize some vulnerable people if their ethnicity is wrong. That’s not equitable.
Another government heath project with racism and eugenics deeply ingrained in it.
Who could have seen that coming?
Anyone familiar with the Tuskegee experiment, Dr. Mengele, the history of Planned Parenthood, people familiar with the Indian Health Service, Buck v. Bell, Japanese Unit 731, it’s a long list.
But this time it’s white people who will die so that’s fine then.
I swear “medical ethicist” is a term that means “someone who figures out how to justify the murder of undesirables.”
The scariest part is that they are willing to say this in the NYT. Makes you wonder what they are not willing to say.
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