The new “what did you do to your Z today” (with off topic replies) XXXVIII

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There's just so much fvuckedupedness here I can't even summarize it. But I'll try. Basically, the vaccination panel appointed by the gov't thinks nursing home residents and older folks are better off dying, because they feel the overriding point of their job is to remedy "health inequity."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/h...gtype=Homepage

Quotes from the article:

"Historically, the committee relied on scientific evidence to inform its decisions. But now the members are weighing social justice concerns as well."

Marc Lipsitch, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, argued that teachers should not be included as 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,” he said.

“Older populations are whiter, ” Dr. Schmidt said. “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.”

"Still, some people believe it is wrong to give racial and socioeconomic equity more weight than who is most likely to die."

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