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Well, what's reasonable? As my hardline progressive friends have pointed out to me, conventional medical practice employs racial triage in all sorts of contexts
by SpicyLemonZest 5y ago
Well, what's reasonable? As my hardline progressive friends have pointed out to me, conventional medical practice employs racial triage in all sorts of contexts (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/take-racism-out-of-medical-algorithms/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/take-racism-out-o..., although I don't agree with 100% of their analysis), so you're right that this isn't new or unique. But it's a big problem despite being old! If you went to your doctor for a sinus infection, and she held up a little skin color chart to decide whether you're allowed to have antibiotics, nobody would struggle to identify that as unacceptable even if you had unimpeachable studies showing racial disparities in sinus infection rates.
- Latty 5y agoWhen we don't have enough of a treatment, we have to prioritise somehow. Are you arguing it was wrong to prioritise older people for the vaccine, for example? If you think that the metrics they are using are bad, make the case, but arguing that race should never be a factor is absurd when we know there are lots of cases where race massively changes your odds, just as with age. How much time and money that could be spent just producing more treatment is it justified to spend trying to make sure the exact people get the treatment? Maybe we can do better, but it being just racism against white people to ever take race as a factor is an absurd characterisation of that.