Joe Biden Presidency thread *Please read OP - Threadbanned Users Added 4/5/21*

Its not directly to do with Biden but it is to do with the Democrats as a whole and the philosophy behind it is one that the Biden administration is wholeheartedly behind, remember that a number of Federal financial relief schemes were found to be illegally discriminatory against white people.

Also realized another way that this policy highlights how race theory based thinking has become embedded and how it's not a neutral evidence based reading of risks. Males are disproportionately at risk from Covid, a fact thats true globally and is more evident when you consider age profiles (more old women than old men).

A neutral evidence based approach that used broad demographic indicators to prioritize care rather than assessing individual risk would include race but would also include sex.

We know this hasn't happened though and it's likely to do with the fact that the ideological mindset behind the guidance issued considers males a privileged group.

It isn't deflection. You said you didn't want to do nothing. So what would you do instead?

Interestingly we already had race based triage but it was hidden behind other metrics and didn't generate as much fuss. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8445412/

As an aside the cdc have been pumping specific resources into why men receive worse outcomes to covid as opposed to women and what should be done about it. Similar to what created this rule.

https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2020/20_0247.htm

It's amazing how the President is suddenly responsible for everything when his name isn't Trump 😂

What policy was in place that made race a factor before this one?

But that isn't what this is. It is identifying those groups that have historically suffered from lack of access, lack equality.

It isn't saying whites can get access, but in targeting groups they have identified those that appear to be less able and or willing to access it.

Much the same as they target obese people, or older people.

There are no white people getting refused.

They have designated two groups of people. White and non white. Non whites get a risk assigned based on nothing more than the colour of their skin. What is the medical basis for this? You bring up obese and elderly as if it's the same thing. At least there is a medical reason to assign risk to obese or elderly people. There is a shortage of this medicine and it is being rationed to people with a higher risk which by default puts every non white person in the front of the queue. There is no medical reason whatsoever for this policy and if there is I'd love to hear how something so arbitrary as white/ non white is a medical decision as to who gets a rationed medicine.

The first step in any discussion is to answer the question posed to you, and not side step it by asking your own.