Because If You Can't Trust The CIA ...
Yesterday we mentioned, pretty much in passing, the bizarre Bezos Post op piece by Ruth Marcus: Doctors should be allowed to give priority to vaccinated patients when resources are scarce. Of course, what giving priority to vaccinated patients means is, well, let’s let Ruthie say it herself:
Vaccine resisters are different. Their refusal to take the shot doesn’t just affect their own health — it poses a known risk to the health of others, especially now, with the spread of the delta variant. To decline to be vaccinated is to fail to live up to your duty to your community. And it should mean that you forfeit — if necessary — your claim to equal medical treatment.
Forget the attempted clever nuances and escape clauses—that’s the bottom line.
And, of course, Ruth draws in a medical authority to support her oh-so-thoughtful notions:
No one is going to yank a ventilator from an unvaccinated patient to treat a vaccinated one in desperate need of treatment, …
but
Emergency physician Dan Hanfling has written extensively about how to triage care, and he agrees. “If you believe there’s a certain degree of accountability that we as citizens have to take for each other to protect our community, then that group of individuals who have willingly chosen not to vaccinate, for illegitimate reasons, it would be fair to place them at the back of the line. Not kick them out of line, just move them back,” he told me. “At the end of the day, if you have willingly chosen not to do something that benefits the public good in the setting of a national crisis, then there are certain consequences.”
What is it that Sundance likes to say? That there’s, like, a special relationship between the WaPo and the CIA, and between the NYT and the FBI? Or is it the reverse? Whatever, the point is that these two newspapers have a special relationship with the Deep State.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise when someone with just a bit of curiousity in his makeup does a bit of background research. It turns out that Dan Hanfling, “emergency physician” who thinks deeply about triage and such-like, well …
What does it all mean? I’m not sure. In my working life I learned not to simply assume that connections are coincidental. That basic degree of skepticism stood me in good stead, and we should definitely be applying it now.
Just sayin’.
As I near retirement from 25 years in LE, I read this cr** and have to wonder. How would "doctors" like this view other members of "the community" looking into his viewpoints and choices? Maybe LE ought to see how he feels and if he doesn't come up to appropriate muster, he could go to the back of the line when it comes time for police services. It might be when he needs it most, kind of like a person in the hospital seriously needs the services of a doctor. You have to wonder where this all leads...Australia? New Zealand?
Just replace unvaccinated with obese, smoker, gang member, and you out the hypocrisy.