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’.
Because If You Can't Trust The CIA ...
What is your retort to that line of reasoning?
The hits keep coming on the MSM/ Left Establishment etc. deceit, see e.g.
https://taibbi.substack.com (on "Moral Majority Media Strikes Again
When Rachel Maddow, Rolling Stone, and others jumped on a dubious report of ivermectin overdoses, it was just the latest in a string of moral mania mishaps"), and
Greenwald (on "The ACLU, Prior to COVID, Denounced Mandates and Coercive Measures to Fight Pandemics....").