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> OK so do you give the treatment to the 10 year old kid who has a 0.000% chance of dying or the 76 year old who has a 5% chance of dying? You're jumping all o
by ardy42 6y ago
> OK so do you give the treatment to the 10 year old kid who has a 0.000% chance of dying or the 76 year old who has a 5% chance of dying?
You're jumping all over the place with your contrived hypotheticals. Are we still talking about AIDS?
Yeah, Giuliani is 76 years old, but he behaved recklessly and there are other old people who didn't. If we're contriving hypotheticals, why should he get it an not some elderly nurse that came back from retirement to help treat COVID patients [1]?
He got it because he was connected, and there was probably someone who had more need or was more deserving who didn't get it because of him.
[1] That is a thing: https://globalnews.ca/news/7481581/texas-nurse-covid-teacher-death/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7481581/texas-nurse-covid-teacher...: "A 70-year-old nurse who gave up her retirement to train a new generation of front-line workers for the pandemic has died, after contracting COVID-19 in north Texas."
- rufus_foreman 6y agoI'm not jumping all over the place at all. >> he behaved recklessly Does that mean other people should be treated in front of him? And if that is the case should that apply in other cases where people behave recklessly? People who shoot IV drugs behave recklessly. People who have unprotected sex behave recklessly. Are people who do not engage in those behaviours more deserving of treatment than people who do engage in those behaviours? I've been asking you this question about three different ways and you won't answer the question.