"Clearly unconstitutional"
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Vermont: Special Vaccine Access If You're of the Right Racial Group
Clearly unconstitutional.EUGENE VOLOKH | 4.2.2021 3:06 PM
From Health Vermont:
ELIGIBILITY
People 50 years and older
People 16 years or older with high-risk health conditions
Parents and primary caregivers of children with high-risk health conditions
Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC)
If you or anyone in your household identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years or older can sign up to get a vaccine….
But such race discrimination violates the Equal Protection Clause, for reasons that Hans Bader (Liberty Unyielding) explains, with citations.
There are times (admittedly not many) that I'm glad that I'm 70 years old. I'm amazed at the fact that this is what our nation has become.
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I’ve known 3 elderly white people that had Covid. One was a 93 year old woman. They did fine. I’ve known 2 middle aged black men that have had it. One died, the other nearly did. I don’t mind them prioritizing POC.
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@lufins-dad I know one 30 - ish white woman who got COVID-19. She's been suffering for 6 months.
Your series of 5 is a small sample, and probably no more valid than my series of one.
Neither is a valid reason to make policy decisions.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Is there anything standing in the way of POC getting the vaccine? That would be wrong. But there isn’t anything except possibly SES, and that mostly computer literacy. I have no issue with promoting the vaccine in these communities. I do have an issue with prioritizing access.
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@george-k said in "Clearly unconstitutional":
@lufins-dad I know one 30 - ish white woman who got COVID-19. She's been suffering for 6 months.
Your series of 5 is a small sample, and probably no more valid than my series of one.
Neither is a valid reason to make policy decisions.
George, I am very sorry for everything that your daughter and your family has gone through with this disease. It does drive home the fact that you don’t have to be young, healthy, and vibrant and still be at risk.
Statistically speaking, African Americans are at a much higher risk level than caucasians. The incidence rate is only 10% higher than caucasians, but their mortality rate is nearly 3 times that of caucasians. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html
@Copper Perhaps that’s due to socioeconomic reasons, perhaps it’s due to genetic differences, maybe it’s preexisting conditions due to either factor. I’ve got no idea and it will be interesting to read what they discover in the future, but right now people are getting sick and dying. Somebody will always come before somebody else. We have to prioritize those most at risk for whatever reason while recognizing that everybody IS at risk.
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Those darned white people are appropriating Arab identity
It appears to be a plot to get more vaccine for white people
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/03/us/arab-americans-covid-19-impact/index.html
The whitewashing of Arab Americans impacted by Covid-19 is a catastrophic public health issue, experts say
(CNN)Dr. Raed Al-Naser was on the front lines at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in San Diego when patients first started coming in with symptoms of Covid-19.
"The hospital was packed and the ICU was at full capacity," the ICU pulmonologist told CNN. "And I saw a disproportionate number of Arab Americans in the ICU."
This realization, and a lack of public health data on the Arab American community, motivated Al-Naser to conduct his own research based on the patients he was seeing at Grossmont Hospital and his own private practice.
"There is a large Arab American community nearby in East San Diego, specifically in El Cajon county," Al-Naser said. "And because there is no identifier for the group, they're all being counted as White Covid-19 patients and no one was noticing how the virus was specifically affecting this population."
Based on the standards set by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), there are seven categories for data on race and ethnicity: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, White, Hispanic or Latino, and non-Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2020 Census program memorandum. As a result, Arab Americans are forced to tick "White" or "other" on the Census and medical paperwork, which means that public health data collected on the community is largely anecdotal, according to experts like Al-Naser.
Arab Americans trace their origins to the Middle East and North Africa, which is traditionally comprised of 22 Arabic-speaking countries. They are not a monolith and can be White, Black and brown. Los Angeles and New York City have the largest populations of Arab American residents in the country based on data from the 2015-2019 ACS Ancestry survey. Both areas have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected minority and immigrant populations.
