My latest in PJ Media:
Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. That day has not yet dawned in New York, at least when it comes to Covid testing and treatment. On December 27, the New York State Department of Health issued a memo to health care providers and facilities on the authorization and “severe shortage” of oral antiviral and monoclonal antibody treatments for Covid, directing that non-white people be given priority for such treatments. Meanwhile, white people are also being passed over for Covid testing in New York City.
The New York State Health Department’s memo stipulated five conditions for allowing patients access to oral antiviral treatments. One of them was that they “have a medical condition or other factors that increase their risk for severe illness.” The department specified that “non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequalities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19.”
This is not science; it’s race-hate mythology on the order of the Nation of Islam’s febrile nightmare of the demonic Dr. Yakub concocting the white race on the island of Madagascar. There is absolutely no way to determine whether or not black and Hispanic people are at greater risk of getting an airborne viral infection because of past or present racism. What’s more, the department’s assumption can be turned on its head, with white New Yorkers arguing that their being sent to the back of the line for oral antiviral treatments is systemic racism that is endangering their health.
And it’s not just this one Health Department memo. The New York Post reported Saturday that “New York City health officials have been using race to help decide how to allocate precious coronavirus testing resources, leaked emails from the agency show.” Briana Nasti, a staffer for City Councilman Joe Borelli, informed the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene that “our office has been receiving calls regarding the mobile NYC H+H [Hemoglobin and Hematocrit] testing sites such as Wolfes Pond Park. It appears many are waiting with delays, and are being turned away after waiting for hours.” The department responded by saying they were prioritizing “neighborhoods flagged by the city’s Taskforce on Racial Inclusion & Equity. The task force, created by the de Blasio administration in 2020, identified 31 underserved neighborhoods to receive ‘priority’ attention from the city.”
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noel says
Crazy! Reverse and cause segregation further riots and what about the sick first.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
At least we know of one important figure that doesn’t discriminate- THE VIRUS.
BTW- Like AOC, its also one of the simplest life forms on the planet.
revereridesagain says
And unlike AOC, it knows enough to stay the hell away from Florida or risk making itself look crass and stupid.
Westman says
Yet another level in liberal government’s soft racism of low expectations. Affirmative Action 2.x “We’re from the government and we are here to help ________ people”.
What goes in the empty field? Certainly, it cannot be the word, “all”.
del says
Vitamin D is really a pre-hormone, rather than a classical “vitamin”. In temperate climates, especially in late winter and early spring (also in the summer in really hot locales where people go indoors into air conditioning), a majority of people are generally Vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D influences many different cellular processes by being a sort of library card, allowing access to a cell’s DNA “library”. Beside being important for calcium uptake, Vitamin D , or its lack, affects human immunity.
Most people produce most of their Vitamin D from exposure to ultraviolet b in sunlight, during the times of the year that the sun is higher in the sky (some, e.g. Inuit, get most Vitamin D from their seal and fish diet).
Darker skinned people tend to produce Vitamin D precursors in their skin more slowly than lighter skinned people. So, away from the Equator, darker skinned people tend to be more Vitamin D deficient than lighter skinned people.
Vitamin D deficiency has been demonstrated to be associated with and probably causal with susceptibility to upper respiratory infections in humans.
It seems reasonable to infer that higher Vitamin D deficiency among African-Americans and Latino-Americans (60-80%+) compared to Caucasian-Americans (40%ish) is at least partly responsible for the disparity in deaths seen early in the covid pandemic.
Access to healthcare is not the only issue.
WPM says
To del
nonsense nothing you said has to do with the newest China flu strain ,some facts that do is African Americans are less likely to take the vax in the cities ,more likely to be overweight ,to smoke, and have other “lifestyle” choices that put themselves more at risk of getting very sick if they get the China flu in rural poor areas poor lower class whites have these lifestyle choices putting themselves at higher risk. The higher deaths are people more at risk regardless of race, age and general overall health being the greatest factors. If someone is very sick or old they should get treatment regardless of race before someone young and generally healthy does. In North Italy in the spring of 2020 the death rates peaked the average age of someone dying of it was 80 years old white male who smoked .
del says
Your response is unintelligent. Please reread my comment slowly and carefully.
somehistory says
One expert said in video that it’s difficult to get enough vitamin D from sunlight. It is true that most people are deficient and this can cause many problems in staying healthy.
It is also proven that high fructose corn syrup…put in just about all processed foods and drinks…keeps the liver from being able to process ,and the cells to use ,the vitamin.
Zinc is said to keep a virus from replicating and helps with immunity. vitamin C, D, and zinc can help any one of any age and condition, to fight off viruses.
somehistory says
The new and not improved, “gov” of NY said that “racism” is a “national security” danger.
The people in charge of NY are all idiots, evidently. Next, the way things are headed, mozlums will be at the head of the line…no matter their skin tone…and everyone else can be told, ‘don’t bother to apply.”
Walter Sieruk says
This top article starts off with the sentence “Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a day when people would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. That day has not yet dawned in New York, at least when it comes to Covid testing and treatment. ”
Well , this above information shows that there must be many people in power in the health department as well as in other places that only really believe in and follower the precepts and values of their heroes only as long as it happens to suite them.
Islamaphone says
Everybody notices skin color. That’s not racism, although some deem it so. Advantaging or disadvantaging groups of people based on their race or skin color, is racism.
gravenimage says
+1
gravenimage says
New York Covid Testing and Treatment: White People Need Not Apply
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Good god…
eduardo odraude says
As with affirmative action preferences, preferences for limited supplies of vaccine, if such preferences happen at all, should not be based on race but on poverty.
eduardo odraude says
Idiocy, thoughtlessness, state education, corruption, conformist cowardice, racism, and combinations of those lead people to support race-based, rather than poverty-based, preferences.
James Lincoln says
Poorer health outcomes regarding Covid are experienced in people of lower socioeconomic classes irrespective of race.
They tend to live in crowded housing conditions, work in “essential” fields, have chronic health conditions (especially metabolic syndrome), and have inconsistent access to quality healthcare.
The only thing that I know of that is specifically “race related” (regarding Covid) are vitamin D levels. Blacks have lower vitamin D levels (important in immunity) due to skin pigmentation.
Luckily this can be easily treated with vitamin D supplements.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16549493/
del says
“…vitamin D supplements.”
As Public Health Authorities and Black community leaders have so often told everyone…Rrrright?
OLD GUY says
Why do we have to make this a race issue? Let’s just take care of everyone who needs treatment. Our government should see everyone the same, we are all citizens period.
Eric Snow says
As a minor correction, at least based on what Malcolm X said in his “Autobiography,” the Nation of Islam believes that the white race was the result of a series of hybridization experiments on the island of Patmos in the Aegean, the same place where John wrote the book of Revelation.
After the moon separated from the earth, the first humans were black people who founded the holy city of Mecca. Among these black people were 24 wise scientists. However, one of them created the especially strong black tribe of Shabazz, from which America’s blacks descended. Around 6,600 years ago, an evil black scientist, with a freakishly big head, named Yacub learned how to breed races scientifically. He preached in Mecca, converted many, and caused such trouble that the authorities there exiled him and 59,999 others to the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea. I think a good book for Mr. Spencer to write would be a systematic, full-book rebuttal to Malcolm X’s “Autobiography,” since this book still has the power to convert at least black Americans to Islam. This book still has a malign influence on black Americans even as we (as whites) should be willing to admit how badly blacks were treated in the time period of which Malcolm X/Charles Little was writing about.
Michael Casmer says
No, no you have it all wrong. didn’t you see all the news reports when the virus first came out? Black people were targeted by the virus because they were Black.