Apparently the best way to fight racism is to be super racist.
Why is that racist? The majority of people who got the first round of vaccines were well-off white people that could work from home and easily afford food and grocery delivery. Black and Latino people are more likely to have jobs that canât be done remotely and require them to come in direct contact with maskless jerks all day long. They also made up the majority of COVID deaths.
It gets into the same argument as âpoor countries shouldnât get rich countriesâ helpâ. Do you want to limit deaths from COVID and the rapid spreading of it, or do you want to make sure this pandemic goes on forever? Prioritize people who donât need the vaccine and youâll keep getting variants and no end to this nonsense
Discrimination based on race is definitionally racist.
Iâm pretty sure the focus is on getting equal distribution of vaccines out. Even now, more white people have gotten COVID shots than any other group. Itâs not racist to say âweâve missed a good chunk of the population. Letâs focus on that groupâ. If for some reason mostly people aged 30-45 were the only people getting the vaccine, would it be âageistâ to target people aged 18-29 and 46+? If for some reason it was mostly people with brown hair got the vaccine, would it be discriminatory to focus on making sure people with blond or black hair got the vaccine?
Itâs only racist if youâre actively trying to discriminate against a group based on their race. Seeing that a group didnât get something and then focusing your efforts to make sure they get it isnât racist. Itâs making sure they get access to what other people already have easy access to. No one said âwhite people canât get the vaccine nowâ. If they made it explicitly clear that the vaccine is not going to available at all to white people, or white people have to have some sort of ID that mostly only non-white people have in order to get the vaccine, that would be racist. What is happening here is that efforts are ramped up to make sure that non-whites get the vaccine because they havenât had as easy access. Itâs not discriminating against anyone based on their race.
I donât think you have read the story.
Whoâs more at risk of dying from COVID? White people who work from home and have doctors that listen to their concerns and make sure their health problems are promptly addressed? Or non-white people, who tend to have jobs that force them to come in direct contact with other people and also are less likely to have been given the time off to get the vaccine in the first place and have doctors that dismiss most of what they say? Who has been dying more from COVID since the start of the pandemic? Iâll give you a hint: itâs not white people.
I donât even think she read the title of the article as sheâs focused on vaccines and getting the virus as opposed to treating sick patients.
Just for the record I hate white people more than any other white posters here. And Iâm a bit swarthy.
It looks to me like yet another instance of health authorities getting confused about the meaning of ârisk factorâ, conflating it with âproximate causeâ.
If there are certain districts that have a higher percentage of people who might (based on statistical inferences) benefit from certain drugs, then fine, prioritize those districts. That doesnât need to be a contentious thing. Nor does it need to involve any mention of skin colour.
They will be sued, they will lose, rinse and repeat over and over till it sinks in. Some dude was just awarded 10 million dollars for being fired from his company so he could be replaced by a couple of non white dudes.
Some folks over at MSNBC (I seem to recall) were hilariously puzzled over the whole thing.
So itâs a list of criteria needed to be eligible for oral antiviral treatment. White people can also receive this treatment. Not a story.
What?
You need to be over 12 ( or 18)
You need to test positive on a lateral flow at home
You need to have mild to moderate symptoms
You need to be able to start treatment with five days
You need to have a medical condition or other risk factors(*) which increase risk of severe illness
(*Non white or Hispanic-Latino ethnicity to be considered an increased risk factor due to their longstanding social and health inequalities)
Tell me where a white person canât fit into these criteria?
Itâs very kind of them that white people can fit in, but people have been put at relative advantages and disadvantages to receive these treatments purely on the basis of their race (as determined by the government in some way). White people must have a risk factor, while non-white and Hispanic people do not. There are many poor white people and middle class and wealthy non-white people.
Their risk factor is living in the state of New York.
I donât see this as relevant.
The bigger issue is that non-white and Latino-Hispanic communities are consistently treated unfairly both socially and economically to the point where just being alive in New York State is a risk factor to them. But apparently, as is often the case, this is about white rights.
When did it stop being about public health?
If you see it that way thatâs fine, but you said it was ânot a storyâ. I guess weâll just have to differ if you think so. I despise racism in all its forms.
It depends who you ask mate. In another thread this is all just mass hysteria.
I should have said, âThis is not the story being told,â in reference to the newspaper article. Yes, itâs a story about racism, but itâs not a story about white people being in on the receiving end of racism. Itâs about how tone deaf white people are to the suffering of others.
No, itâs about racism. I would like nothing more than to ensure that people actually suffering are receiving their needed treatment. Itâll surely be struck down anyway. I wouldnât be surprised if we see another Republican governor. Iâd be voting for one surely with madness like this from the Democrats, if I could.