Ezekiel Emanuel Wants Respiratory-Illness Technocracy Without End

Sooner or later COVID will wane and probably become endemic — that is, part of life, like the flu. And with that, the newfound power of public-health technocrats would wane.

They know this, and it does not make them happy. So, advocacy has commenced to establish a “new normal” — gosh, I hate that term — that would not restore society simply to a state of accepting respiratory illness as a part of life, but rather, keep us continually obsessed with the presence and prevention of illness.

Toward this end, bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel and two co-authors wrote three advocacy columns in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Space does not permit a full recounting. But they are free, so all readers can access them by hitting the links provided.

First, they accept that the current policy of “no COVID” cannot be accomplished. True.

Then, they argue that our response to COVID becoming endemic should be to treat all respiratory ailments as one thing by aggregating statistics. From, “A National Strategy for the ‘New Normal” of Life with Covid” (my emphasis):

The “new normal” requires recognizing that SARS-CoV-2 is but one of several circulating respiratory viruses that include influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and more. COVID-19 must now be considered among the risks posed by all respiratory viral illnesses combined. Many of the measures to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (eg, ventilation) will also reduce transmission of other respiratory viruses. Thus, policy makers should retire previous public health categorizations, including deaths from pneumonia and influenza or pneumonia, influenza, and COVID-19, and focus on a new category: the aggregate risk of all respiratory virus infections.

Freedom of choice, is an antagonist for authoritarians who demand that government and *experts with expertise* are the answer for pandemic.

Typically, in order for government and said “experts” to justify their ego and budgets for exercising their might, they insist that they must cancel/crush:

- therapies and treatments,

- self-help type medical care, and

- associated decision-making human behavior,

that are other than what the state approves and/or dictates.

Whereas, until now, we had individual agency and responsibility to take care of our selves, family members, friends and neighbors . . . from now on, the government and associated “experts with expertise” plus “liberal” (leftist) voices that cancel free speech, are insisting that our right to freely choose our medical care and decisions, be replaced by endless subscription.

Subscription - the same as, now, you do not purchase a software product, rather, you subscribe and rent -— because owning is being outlawed or replaced by gov’t regulations (you might still have a title, but your freedoms to act are prohibited).

Government formerly restricted to what WE ENUMRATED as the specific powers of government and its agents . . . shall henceforth be government and its “experts” now asserting, that it/they shall enumerate what we can do, and thus leave all remaining authority to such governors.

Our Constitution replaced by a leftwing “terms of service” and policies “for other purposes.”

Chief Heathcare Advisor to Obama and brother of Rahm Emanuel.

"Every favor to a constituency should be linked to support for the health-care reform agenda. If the automakers want a bailout, then they and their suppliers have to agree to support and lobby for the administration's health-reform effort."

This guy has a murderer's row of quotes, and I have listed a few of them below. As you read these, keep in mind: he and people of a like mindset are proud of these quotes.

"When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."
"Ultimately, the complete lives system does not create 'classes of Untermenschen whose lives and well being are deemed not worth spending money on,' but rather empowers us to decide fairly whom to save when genuine scarcity makes saving everyone impossible."
"Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia."
"Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years."
(I found this quote below to very indicative of who this man is)
"Vague promises of savings from cutting waste, enhancing prevention and wellness, installing electronic medical records and improving quality are merely 'lipstick' cost control, more for show and public relations than for true change. Savings will require changing how doctors think about their patients. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others."
"Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems incorrect. The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.... Adolescents have received substantial substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments.... It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does."

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