New York is Using Race to Determine Access to a Limited Supply of Life-Saving COVID Treatments

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[–]AXXA 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

People of all races should be outraged by this. If they can deny medical treatment to white people then that means they can do it to black people too.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No they can't. The policy literally says black people can get it.

[–]AXXA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's true today but there's no telling what tomorrow will bring. What goes around comes around.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

But there will be different policies in the future and once racism is allowed they can go both ways.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Uh, no? The whole point of Critical Theory, which this announcement is using the language of, is to punish whites for crimes in the past. Depriving them of medicine is a mild punishment compared to what's in store in the future. It'll never go "both ways" - fairness is called liberalism, and liberalism and fairness are both hard rejected by Critical Theory.

Your hypothetical scenario will never happen. It's a one-way ratchet.

[–]ShalomEveryone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol, black people are already being COVID denied medical treatment.

Black doctor dies of COVID after alleging hospital mistreatment: 'This is how Black people get killed'

Lying in a hospital bed laboring for breath despite being on oxygen, Dr. Susan Moore, a 52-year-old Black physician, stared into her cell phone and recorded a video alleging her battle with COVID-19 was made worse by the treatment she received from a doctor at a suburban Indianapolis, Indiana, hospital.

Moore's case appears to highlight a concern health-care advocates say has been exposed by the pandemic: allegations that Black people and minorities suffering from COVID receive inferior medical treatment compared to whites.

Black people have also been disproportionately affected and have died from coronavirus more than their white counterparts. An analysis by the Brookings Institution released earlier this year showed that Black people with COVID have died at 3.6 times the rate of white people.

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And the treatment isn’t even limited. It’s false scarcity.

[–]nolocus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is how equity works. Nothing to see here.