Posted on 12/18/2020 6:20:13 PM PST by Impala64ssa
The experts also said teachers shouldn't get vaccine priority because they're white
The COVID-19 vaccine rolled out this week, and now there is a debate about which groups should be a priority on the coronavirus vaccine waiting list. The New York Times attempted to answer the question about the COVID-19 priority list in an article titled "The Elderly vs. Essential Workers: Who Should Get the Coronavirus Vaccine First?"
The article featured health experts, economists, and epidemiologists to give their insight into who should move to the front of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine. Much to the shock of many readers, the experts considered race when deciding who received priority in receiving the potentially life-saving vaccine.
Dr. Peter Szilagyi, a committee member and a pediatrics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, declared, "The issue of ethics is very significant, very important for this country, and clearly favors the essential worker group because of the high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers among essential workers."
Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times, "It is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities."
"Older populations are whiter, " Schmidt told the paper. "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."
Schmidt proclaimed that essential workers should be given priority for the vaccine over the elderly, even though people aged 75-84 have a chance 220 times higher of dying from coronavirus than younger adults, and anyone over the age of 85 has a chance 630 times higher, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Marc Lipsitch, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, also hinted that the race of a person should determine who should or should not get priority on the coronavirus waiting list. Lipsitch said that teachers shouldn't be considered essential workers, "if a central goal of the committee is to reduce health inequities."
"Teachers have middle-class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees," Lipsitch told the Times.
Elise Gould, a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, asserted that teachers should be prioritized because it would allow people to get back to work with reliable child care at schools.
"And if you think generally about people who have jobs where they can't telework, they are disproportionately Black and brown," Gould said. "They'll have more of a challenge when child care is an issue."
Twitter user Jason Compson was one of the first people to point out the concerning racial aspects of the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine found in the New York Times article.
Later in the piece another doctor, named Marc Lipsitch, explains that teachers should not be considered essential w… https://t.co/DzFuytsOtH
— Jason Compson (@Jason Compson)1608271747.0
So to sum up, in this single article by @JanHoffmanNYT, three experts--Schdmit, Lipsitch, and Gould-- say that more… https://t.co/Flz0Bh1rg6
— Jason Compson (@Jason Compson)1608272107.0
BlazeTV personality Dave Rubin tore apart the article, "Just The NY Times quoting a doctor who wants to kill older white people for political purposes. (Which was the next obvious step of the garbage The NY Times has been pushing for years.) 'Expert in ethics' doesn't mean what it used to."
BlazeTV's Allie Beth Stuckey of the "Relatable" podcast, pointed out, "This is so insanely evil. Please, woke Christians, do go on about how Critical Race Theory is just a bogeyman made up by the right that doesn't pose any real threat. Tell me again about how Christian Nationalism is our biggest threat."
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine wrote, "Truly disgusting. Approved eugenics. Elderly are most at risk and should be first in line for a vaccine. The color of their skin is immaterial. What has happened to the medical profession?"
One commenter replied, "This thread shows there is something seriously rotten at the NY Times. The attempts to assign values to people's lives purely by skin color are unethical, immoral, and completely backwards."
Another person noted, "Just a little peek into government run healthcare right here."
The New York Times admitted that governors along with state and local health officials will ultimately decide who gets the coronavirus vaccine first and are not required to follow CDC guidelines.
Yeah. That’s what I was thinking.
It’s for the poor widdle minoatwies!
DEMOCRAT Death Panels in action.
They can have mine.
This “expert” and Zeke Emanuel are most certainly pals.
Yeah, I’m not all that shocked about this, but I’m totally fine with hanging out way at the back of the line and seeing how it all plays out.
I’m 61 and my wife is 60. We both just got offered $750 each to get vaccinated and let them monitor us for side effects.
White people will have to pay more on the Black market.
They can have mine.
When they kill us all off, they’ll start dying because they can’t do a damn thing themselves.
Unless they coddle up to the yellows.
Remember that crap about a day without (illegal) Hispanics? Immigrants? There was even a movie called this.
We should have a day without whites.
Whats uniquely interesting about COVID-19 is that it kills old people, mostly with impunity.
Kids, rare.
Healthy adults? Not so much...a little down time.
Un-healthy adults...you’re going to pay. You’re unlikely to die, but its’ not out of the question.
Old, like 70+ ? Get your will and wishes up to date. Your time is most likely up.
Conspiracy Theory? What a convenient virus, one that eradicates the elderly, those with the knowledge and wisdom, who own 90% of all the liquid wealth in the world, gone. A vacuum in leadership, in finance, in guidance. What remains? The young, the adults trapped in the world of commerce, with little assets, mountains of debt, trenches of hope, and an all-to-accomodating state ready to step in for the rescue in surrender of your freedom and independence, and possibly your young.
Thesis - Anti-Thesis - Synthesis. A “Great Reset”.
Just food for thought. 2 Cents in a bucket of quarters!
You just have to love identity politics. Feel the love and unity that it brings.
Hmm. Seems racist. 😁
Maybe we should set April 1 as National Day Without White Middle Class Working Stiffs. The joke’s on them.
Ironic we both think alike.
And they laughed at Sarah Palin when she said “death panels.”
This plan really works out well for me because I don’t want to take the vaccine.
But ..... is it going to be racist when they start giving all of those that aren’t white the shot and they start having immunization injuries? Then they are going to be screaming that they were using the minorities as guinea pigs before giving it to us elite white people.
Interesting.
Honestly we need a nationwide “White Out!” You hate white people? Whitie boycotts your crap, and your advertizers. Let minorities prop your crap up.
I figured it out. An expert is someone who WAS pertinent in their field. Because of drugs or leftist ideology, they were being ignored so they got other leftists to say they are EX-PERTS.
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