New York to Openly Discriminate Against White People In COVID-19 Treatments – Opinion

New York, in a surprising move given its descent into hard-left politics has publicly embraced racism. It will also discriminate against people of color when it comes COVID-19 treatment.

According to New York, there is a shortage of Monoclonal and Paxlovid antibodies and it must be reduced. According to New York, they’ve begun picking who should and shouldn’t be prioritized, and according to them, not being white makes you far more susceptible to the virus, and thus white people will be shoved to the back of the line for treatments.

“Non-white race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity should be considered a risk factor, as longstanding systemic health and social inequities have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19,” It is interpreted as follows: MemoThe New York Department of Health.

NY State Department of Health has warned that they lack sufficient Paxlovid/MonoclonalAntibody Treatment. This means whites should not apply. https://t.co/shbMWDomLJ pic.twitter.com/MwBtjv2pDx

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) December 31, 2021

Fox News reported that a New York Health Department official took the blame for the CDC’s apparent discrimination and claimed no one was disqualified from treatment based solely on skin colour.

Erin Silk, a spokesperson for the New York Department of Health, told Fox News in a statement that the state’s “prioritization guidance comes directly from the CDC” and that neither “race nor ethnicity would disqualify an individual from receiving treatment.”

“Systemic poverty, which has clearly proven to be a risk factor in populations in New York State and nationwide, is added to the algorithm of prioritization similar to all other risk factors. It is merely mentioned as a factor that increases risk,” she wrote.

Silk is technically speaking the truth, but it doesn’t address the issue. No, white people aren’t expressly disqualified from receiving treatment, but they’ll definitely be deprioritized under this guidance from the Health Department.

It is likely that there will be many questions about the legality and prioritization of certain races in medical care. But, who will bring up these questions?

Although the legal implications of this are not yet discussed, it is clear that the moral grounding can be discerned. It is unadulterated racism, discriminating against one skin color. This was something that society has learned to be bad for decades. The regressivism of New York’s hard-left has infected New York politics for decades. Now, it is pushing the idea that each race should be treated better.

To be sure, each person in New York’s leadership should be asked whether or not they’re in support of this, and each answer should inform the voters exactly where they stand in terms of how far to the left they lean.

But moreover, they shouldn’t be surprised when people who have no faith in their government to help them get the proper medical care go to other options in order to seek treatment. These include things such as hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin that were used to benefit others, but which are now considered dangerous and not available for people due to their race.