Marcella Nunez-Smith, a chief Biden adviser, is praising a federal recommendation prioritizing minority groups in distributing the coronavirus vaccine. Support for the use of race as the basis for federal distribution of the Covid vaccine would appear to be the definition of discrimination.
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Nunez-Smith is a co-chair of Biden’s Covid 19 advisory board. She told the Washington Post the board approves of the vaccine distribution recommendations issued by a CDC and Prevention panel on Sunday.
Her description says she was “quite excited” about the “grounding in inequity” of the panel’s guidance. Presumably, this is referring to “the importance given to factors such as housing and minority status in decisions about prioritization.” That’s not science… that’s discrimination.
The CDC panel’s recommendation calls for frontline essential workers to receive the vaccine next, along with adults aged 75 and older. The essential workers include grocery store employees, teachers, and postal workers. Largely organized labor groups all. That’s not science … that’s discrimination.
The recommendations are scientifically mendacious.
The rationale for the emergency declaration was to limit deaths. There is only one age group that is disproportionately at risk. That group is those 70+. If there is going to be a distribution, it should be to those known to be at risk first. Interestingly it is an age-defined group, not a race defined group. That’s the science, not discrimination.
The panel’s assessments acknowledge that targeting older adults for vaccination would be the most effective way to combat “morbidity and mortality.” Even though older members of the population are most at risk of dying from the coronavirus, the recommendation ignores the science. It does that because this is a political power and control virus, not a medical emergency.
There is instead prioritization of this specific group as essential workers in the early vaccine phases. This is partly intended to fast-track vaccine distribution to minority groups. They are alleged to make up a disproportionate share of this group of essential workers. That makes the process a political virtue-signaling exercise, not a public health matter.
The CDC panel specifically cited the under-representation of minorities among older adults. The assertion is that minorities don’t get old at the same rate as the rest of us? Say what?
Maybe there is a large share of minorities among essential workers in these organized labor pools. It is just basic bigotry in the deliberations of distribution? There is no reason to be mitigating “health inequities” through targeted vaccine allotment. That’s just male bovine excrement for taking racist action.
The recommendation passed the CDC panel on a 13-to-1 vote. The sole committee member to oppose the phased schedule was Henry Bernstein. He said believes adults aged 65 to 74 should have been included in the immediate next phase.
A previous proposal under discussion by the panel calls for the vaccination of essential workers before older adults. That would be valid discrimination. Protect frontline healthcare workers. That proposal designates older people as a low-priority category. At least it is honest. It tells us where the Biden administration is on healthcare.
The CDC panel wants to designate older people as low priority because of the underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities. So much for the rhetoric about the loss of even one life is unacceptable. This is a racist, eugenics practicing administration. This gives us an idea of what we have to look forward to under Biden. The CDC proposal is prioritizing racial equity concerns over minimizing death.