Note the title. "The Way We Ration Ventilators Is Biased".
Apparently, if this piece of trash is not allowed to put his grubby fingers on the scale based on race, then things are "biased".
The simplest way of increasing fairness would be to adjust scores by using so-called weights. In this way, disadvantaged populations would not be penalized for factors beyond their control, and would have a fairer chance at receiving a ventilator. We already gather the information needed to assign these weights (race, ethnic group, income, insurance status) when patients’ data are first recorded.
An alternative approach might assign weights based on something like the Area Deprivation Index that requires only ZIP code data, typically tracks race, and avoids many of the legal complications that can be raised.
Also note how he calls the black woman "Rosa", just so he can say at the end:
Three patients are waiting to be admitted to an intensive care unit that has one remaining bed. All have equally severe Covid-19 symptoms. John is an otherwise healthy, white 40-year-old man. Rosa is a 45-year-old African-American woman with underlying health issues. Linda is a white 56-year-old woman with Down syndrome. Who should be admitted? (...)
The “saving most lives” model would admit John. He is likely to spend the least time in the intensive care unit, allowing more patients to be put on the ventilator. And since his life expectancy is the greatest, the time he spends on the ventilator enables him to live longer than Linda or Rosa. (...)
Adding fairness weights can avoid exacerbating these divisions now and in the future. Imagine yourself in the position of a clinician (or hospital press officer), needing to explain why counting up the points meant that Rosa has to be moved off a ventilator, so that John can be admitted.
The standard method for rationing ventilators recognizes that racial and other discrimination is not acceptable. Yet, it needs to be modified. We should not have to wait for another black person to refuse to vacate a place they have every reason to be in.
An absolute piece of shit and murderer no less than Adolf Eichmann. Just because you are not pulling the trigger yourself, does not mean that you are not a murderer.
Rosa has to be moved off a ventilator, so that John can be admitted.
Would they really take someone off a ventilator to give it to someone else? That sounds a little bullshit to me. Makes me think that's what he thinks would happen, because he would take John off the ventilator to give it to Rosa.
White Genocide is real. If things aren't so biased in the favour of the genociders that they are guaranteed success at your expense, they will cry "bias" to exploit you.
It's so easy to forget that a lefty's idea of justice is a communist mob genociding Christians en masse. Wait a minute, no it isn't. The left has never ceased its war on Christmas and all the good it represents. They won't stop unless they're evicted from the first world.
Here's the most morbid thing: one of the reasons that the death rate was so high initially was apparently because doctors were panicking and putting people on ventilators who had no need of it. Basically, ventilators themselves may well be more lethal than COVID.
So this person, in an attempt to 'help' non-white people, would have ended up potentially killing them at a disproportionate rate (which he'd then probably spin into another bit of proof that non-white people are oppressed).
Note the title. "The Way We Ration Ventilators Is Biased".
Apparently, if this piece of trash is not allowed to put his grubby fingers on the scale based on race, then things are "biased".
Also note how he calls the black woman "Rosa", just so he can say at the end:
An absolute piece of shit and murderer no less than Adolf Eichmann. Just because you are not pulling the trigger yourself, does not mean that you are not a murderer.
Would they really take someone off a ventilator to give it to someone else? That sounds a little bullshit to me. Makes me think that's what he thinks would happen, because he would take John off the ventilator to give it to Rosa.
Unless Rosa was confirmed terminal, no. And even then, pulling her off would be extremely unlikely.
White Genocide is real. If things aren't so biased in the favour of the genociders that they are guaranteed success at your expense, they will cry "bias" to exploit you.
It's so easy to forget that a lefty's idea of justice is a communist mob genociding Christians en masse. Wait a minute, no it isn't. The left has never ceased its war on Christmas and all the good it represents. They won't stop unless they're evicted from the first world.
Harald "I want to murder people based on their skin color" Schmidt
Here's the most morbid thing: one of the reasons that the death rate was so high initially was apparently because doctors were panicking and putting people on ventilators who had no need of it. Basically, ventilators themselves may well be more lethal than COVID.
So this person, in an attempt to 'help' non-white people, would have ended up potentially killing them at a disproportionate rate (which he'd then probably spin into another bit of proof that non-white people are oppressed).
Good point. I've read a few articles talking about how ventilators were being overused in the early days and causing all sorts problems.
Stopping “bias” by introducing bias.
A SJW's idea of fair is you letting it stomp on your face and rape your family. SJWs are not people.
Just one more argument for ethnically homogeneous communities/states/countries.