Posted on 12/22/2020 7:11:46 AM PST by Kaslin
You were warned about this first in July. Now, it's happening. On Sunday, the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that seniors ages 65 to 74 be moved toward the back of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The reason, says ACIP, is that "racial and ethnic minority groups (are) under-represented" in this age group. Put another way: Seniors are too white.
Vaccines are already being administered to health workers and nursing home residents. The question is this: Who comes next? ACIP wants to push 87 million essential workers -- such as transit workers, supermarket employees and uniformed public servants -- to the front of the line, forcing 32 million seniors to wait.
Vaccinating a majority of 87 million essential workers will consume the vaccine supply for several months.
Thousands of seniors will die needlessly if this decision goes into effect. ACIP actually admits as many as 6.5% more elderly will die over the next six months but dismisses that loss of life as "minimal." Not if it's your grandma.
A person 65 or older is at least 90 times more at risk of dying from COVID-19 than a young working-age person. Vaccinating the elderly first is the obvious strategy to save the most lives. ACIP says its twisted priorities are based in "fairness, equity and justice." What the committee really means is "wokeness."
Committee member Peter Szilagyi, from the University of California, Los Angeles, defends ACIP's move, because "essential workers" include "a high proportion of minority, low-income and low-education workers."
These left-wing academics are exploiting the pandemic as a launching pad for their redistributionist agenda. The lives of seniors -- who need the vaccine the most -- be damned.
Harald Schmidt, from the University of Pennsylvania, explains that "older populations are whiter." He says "society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to ... them, we can start to level the playing field a bit."
What's alarming is that Schmidt's call to level the playing field is widely shared. Dr. Douglas White, an ethicist at the University of Pittsburgh, says that if COVID-19 therapeutics are in short supply, they should go to patients from disadvantaged groups first. What's next? Requiring that when emergency rooms are packed, minorities and poor people get helped ahead of the elderly?
Medicine is no place for social engineering. It's frightening.
In Britain, vaccines are being administered with one unambiguous goal -- saving the most lives. Those over 80 are first in line, and then those in their 60s and 70s, followed by younger people with high-risk health conditions. Britain's health service explains, "The optimal strategy for minimizing future deaths" is "to offer vaccination to older age groups first."
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and the World Health Organization agree. But in America, the academic left has hijacked vaccination.
The bogus excuse is "structural racism" in American health care. The New York Times points to a "documented history of (minorities) receiving unequal care."
In the distant past, yes, but there is almost no evidence of racism in medicine today. A recent article in Scientific American could cite only two studies in more than 20 years documenting unequal care. New research from NYU Langone shows that Black COVID-19 patients "if anything ... do a little better" than white patients in the hospital. A larger study comparing Black and white COVID patients in 92 hospitals in 12 states found almost identical survival rates, though Blacks again did slightly better.
The persistent and unproven claims of racism in medicine are a slap in the face to the overwhelming majority of nurses, doctors and other medical personnel who provide care to their patients based on medical need, not race.
Medical need should be the only standard for dispensing vaccines, as well. By that standard, all people 65 and over should be top priority. Beware of arguments to level the playing field. They are malevolent and have no place in medicine. This time, seniors are the victims. Next time, it could be you.
If FR is representative of the population, there should be far more than enough vaccine for anybody who wants it.
So, the leftists want to make minorities the guinea pigs for the vaccine(s)? Sounds racist to me.
When, oh when, is someone going to hear someone make such a point, and rather than acquiesce to their ridiculous notion, beat them royally to a pulp for even suggesting any form of leftist pap.
So when the switch in the future is minorities are the prevalent majority over the age of seventy will the white minority be the first in line for future medicines? /sarc
These hacks will be screaming for meds when it’s their life on the line.
I think ALL vaccinations available should be diverted to CA so that 100% there can get innoculated as soon as possible. (minus those who don’t want it who are probably leaving anyway)
That way, we can all see what happens with lockdowns IF we all get vaccinated.
“...If FR is representative of the population, there should be far more than enough vaccine for anybody who wants it...”
Yep.
Personally, the wife and I both had it and survived.
We’re just going to trust our natural antibodies and T-cells for now on in. They can give our vaccine shots to whomever they like.
“Professors”, “Universities”......nough said.
>So, the leftists want to make minorities the guinea pigs for the vaccine(s)?
If the rumor about the placenta protein in the vaccine causing infertility is true, this could get bad reaaaaaaaly fast.
After American Blacks, there are also almost all the people of Africa, whom woke Leftists view as inherently more worthy than American Whites, based on their skin color.
Maybe 2022 for old White people. Or maybe by then, they can have a new eugenics/genocide program running, as a final solution to inequity and social injustice. That could allow even more vaccine to be conserved for more politically desirable groups of people.
If they vaccinate the oldies, it will drop the death rate. Can’t have that.
Has it, or is this a case of the dogs barking, but the caravan rolling on? Has one schedule of vaccination actually changed? Or are the leftists just virtue signaling?
It’s about as noteworthy as Dr. Jill Biden. we’ve to other fish to fry.
Un-phucking-believable. Race, Race, Race. There are fewer blacks that are not 65 to 74? Of course they are "under-represented" because they are 13% of the population. Sheesh, I am getting to hate these RACISTS more every day.
Whoops the Emperor Joe just got it and hes 78...and white...
> So, the leftists want to make minorities the guinea pigs for the vaccine(s)? Sounds racist to me.
Gotta hand it to them, the Democrats managed to seamlessly transition from the party of Jim Crow to the party of “getting minorities to do it to themselves” without missing a beat.
I, for one, am delighted to see the vaccine tested on politicians, before it is tested on my mom.
Face it, 535 does for Congress is a nothing to the hundreds of millions required. A few thousand is barely a drop in the bucket.
So, by all means, inoculate Congress, senior bureaucrats, and appointees, first.
The left has wanted to “level the playing field” and kill white conservatives for decades and now they are. Ghouls is what they are.
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