Rationing health care for the old because Race. Oof
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You’re rationing for someone either way when supply is limited.
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I've heard an argument for vaccinating the more social/mobile, including essential workers, before the elderly that made sense for potentially reducing death on net. Of course, any racist argument need not be entertained.
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Where does it say that essential workers are getting vaccinated before people over 65?
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David's thread is a bit unfair. The original publication claims a negligible improvement in lives saved when the vaccine is introduced to >65 compared to HCPs, especially in the case where disease incidence is falling (which it should be after a peak event like the holidays)
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I think maybe this is a crux; it seems non-negligible to me
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It's effecting what we're allowed to talk about. A culture of fear in communicating ideas is going to eventually lead to bad ideas winning out over good ideas.
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The report feels like someone had to paste together a lot of bullshit reasoning to justify something too sophisticated for a CDC report (e.g. that it’s a particular, deontological moral good to vaccinate those that are forced to endure exposure)
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For each step there’s a solid argument in favor, but the reason *given* is a cosmetically adjacent one which ties in the political fashion of the day Which is what politics is all about, yeah?
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My gut is this is more ageism than racism but somebody threw on a bad explanation at the end.
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Our policies are usually insufficiently ageist - they tend to focus on raw deaths rather than QALY lost.
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