States have considered an important component to their vaccine plans “racial equity” but equity isn’t exactly what is being rolled out.
“Every US state has been advised to consider ethnic minorities as a critical and vulnerable group in their vaccine distribution plans, according to Centers for Disease Control guidance.
As a result, half of the nation’s states have outlined plans that now prioritize black, Hispanic and indigenous residents over white people in some way, as the vaccine rollout begins.”
States that have outlined these plans are as follows: California, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Equity as defined by Oxford is “the quality of being fair and impartial.” Prioritizing certain groups over others on the basis of race is not exactly fair or impartial.
Perhaps some racial minorities contract the virus at a higher rate. However the common denominator is likely not their race, but their economic stance. As we know blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately in poverty as compared to whites and this likely contributes a higher likelihood of becoming sick unfortunately. So rather than prioritize people based on their skin color, would it not make more sense to prioritize those in poverty regardless of their race?
good! I don`t want that poison.
Congratulations, you should be commended for never needing any meds so far in your lifetime.
I don’t plan on taking it either. But this attitude towards white people is going to end up making many actively bigots. They will reap what they sow. This attack needs to stop before it gets out of control.
They can have mine. Maybe there are planning on thinning the herd when they start vaccinating the minority and they are the ones that die from the vaccine.
The majority of patients in PRMC’s COVID ward have been black and/or overweight, but they didn’t want that information out as then people of other races might not be so willing to comply with COVID guidelines and get complacent about mask wearing and social distancing. Unfortunately, biology is not fair, and blacks have a high rate of hereditary high blood pressure and diabetes; both conditions predispose you to COVID complications. Ironically, the medical community’s selective dissemination of information is working against them now since the writer of this article thinks it is not fair for black persons to receive priority vaccination, when in truth, they definitely should be given priority since they are a high risk group. Oh the tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive…..
With nnefarriois people in charge, consider all the other Orwellian reasons there could be a plan to start with minorities.
Illegal Discrimination again !!! Whites better fight back !!!