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Bioethicist who thinks people should die at 75 advising Biden on coronavirus
Lifesite News ^ | Fri Mar 13, 2020 - 7:20 pm EST | Calvin Freiburger

Posted on 03/13/2020 8:22:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

March 13, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — As Americans clamor for information about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and what the president’s Democrat opponents would do differently, some are raising red flags over former vice president Joe Biden’s team of advisers on the subject, one of whom has a history of suggesting that the elderly would be better off dead.

On Wednesday, the Biden campaign announced the creation of a Public Health Advisory Committee, which will help the candidate “minimize health risks for the candidate, staff and supporters.” The panel includes the University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, former Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, former homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco, former Food & Drug Administration commissioner Dr. David Kessler, Georgetown University Medical Center’s Dr. Rebecca Katz, and Columbia University’s Dr. Irwin Redlener.

While several of the names were advisers to the Obama administration in crafting the intensely controversial Affordable Care Act (better known as Obamacare), Emanuel’s inclusion on the list has raised concerns for an additional reason. In 2014, he wrote that he “hope[s] to die at 75,” because “living too long” renders people uncreative, unable to work, “faltering and declining,” and “transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.”

Writing at National Review, Discovery Institute senior fellow Wesley Smith reviews the Atlantic essay in which Emanuel made these statements, finding that his example could have grave consequences if applied to older Americans, who are particularly at risk from coronavirus.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...


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1 posted on 03/13/2020 8:22:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t know.

Sometimes I go 80.

Go Speed Racer!


2 posted on 03/13/2020 8:25:00 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s only 62.

And at that age is is useless to Society.

I’d suggest that fascist leftists like him should be gone by age 60.

Bernie being the prime example of late.


3 posted on 03/13/2020 8:25:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Old people are uncreative? Like Grandma Moses? What unspeakable arrogance.

Well I agree with him a little bit. I do think he should die at 75. Or even sooner.


4 posted on 03/13/2020 8:27:35 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Geez, how old is Biden? 78? He is WAY past his expiration date then.


5 posted on 03/13/2020 8:28:56 PM PDT by madison10
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Logan’s Run II


6 posted on 03/13/2020 8:29:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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7 posted on 03/13/2020 8:31:01 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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great...Rahm’s brother...


8 posted on 03/13/2020 8:31:35 PM PDT by stylin19a (((2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)))
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Never let an old person go to waste.


9 posted on 03/13/2020 8:38:45 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

2020 See Clearly-Think F.A.S.T. - FOOD-AMMO-SHELTER (preferably remote)-TODAY


10 posted on 03/13/2020 8:40:14 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dr Death Panels!!

Ezekiel (Rahm’s bro) Emmanuel.


11 posted on 03/13/2020 8:40:57 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt
Let's just be honest for a minute. Who doesn't love shooting runners?


12 posted on 03/13/2020 8:41:00 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This guy must hate his grandma.


13 posted on 03/13/2020 8:41:32 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (The Nazis were socialists, and all socialists turn into Nazis.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

According to his own beliefs, he only has 13 years to go.

And, Dementia Joe should’nt even be breathing.

Whattacreep.


14 posted on 03/13/2020 8:42:59 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: HighSierra5

ah...Soylent Green
this old person is going to waist...


15 posted on 03/13/2020 8:45:11 PM PDT by stylin19a (((2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Does Zeke know Biden is 77?


16 posted on 03/13/2020 8:47:26 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Jane Long
According to his own beliefs, he only has 13 years to go.

Nothing to worry about. We are all going to expire in some 10+ years.

17 posted on 03/13/2020 8:50:43 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let’s start with Nancy Pelousy and George Sore-Ass?


18 posted on 03/13/2020 8:53:11 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Jane Long
According to his own beliefs, he only has 13 years to go.<<

Don't worry...he'll change his mind on his 74th birthday....but like all arrogant liberals he will admit he was really right...but off by 10 years on the age...he meant 85...../s

19 posted on 03/13/2020 9:08:21 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: M-cubed

this, the National Review article, and The Atlantic article, need to go viral.


20 posted on 03/13/2020 9:09:12 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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