A girl is examined for COVID-19 in Seth Low Park in September 2020.
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The Difficulty: Town Division of Well being’s determination to contemplate race when distributing COVID remedies.
The latest determination by the New York state Division of Well being to make use of race and ethnicity as components in figuring out eligibility for COVID therapeutics is past disturbing (“Racial Medical Care Is Careless,” Editorial, Jan. 2). Apparently New York Metropolis can be adopting this coverage.
Such selections clearly violate the Structure in addition to federal statutes. The governor and the mayor owe the folks instant explanations for these selections, launched to the general public on New 12 months’s Eve in an effort to blunt any criticism.
Why the voters of New York proceed to vote for Democrats is past understanding. We are going to proceed to undergo from insurance policies resembling these as lengthy the Democrats management Albany and New York Metropolis.
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Hicksville
Woke warriors play roulette with our well being by making race and ethnicity an element for COVID medication.
Age is the largest issue for COVID vulnerability. Some three-quarters of all US COVID deaths have occurred amongst folks 65 or older, says the US Division of Well being and Human Companies.
Seniors of all races and ethnicities ought to get prime precedence for brand spanking new anti-viral medication.
Social-justice junkies are sacrificing public well being on the phony altar of “fairness.”
Richard Reif
Queens
The Well being Division’s tips for distributing life-saving coronavirus remedies that embody contemplating race and preventing “white privilege” do serve one optimistic function: They provide the folks of this nation a preview of what socialized medical care — the obsession of the left — would appear to be.
New York Metropolis is awash in money from the federal authorities, most of which has not even been spent, but the town goes to be rationing primarily based on standards it decides are related.
The Publish is right — that is racism, plain and easy. And the irony is, lots of these paying the taxes to fund this technique would be the ones excluded from the therapy.
Joseph Grassi
Port St. Lucie, Fla.
In a closing act of madness upon the residents of New York, the de Blasio administration proposed a plan to distribute monoclonal antibody therapy for COVID primarily based on race — and guess who’s on the backside of the listing?
The plain racist and constitutional points apart, I can solely surmise that that is former Mayor Invoice de Blasio’s closing determined try to “even the taking part in area” towards whites due to his failure to steer a big share of minorities to be vaccinated.
Maybe he would have satisfied extra minorities by denying monoclonal antibody therapy to anybody who has not been vaccinated.
In any case, the problem will likely be moot as soon as Mayor Adams repeals this divisive determination earlier than it ever will get instituted.
Jack Kaufman
Naples, Fla.
That is terrible and ought to be unlawful. I hope somebody sues the town over this.
Doubtlessly withholding life-saving therapy to somebody due to their race — is that this actually the place we're at this second?
Sooner or later, if we nonetheless have a future as a rustic, this will likely be strongly criticized. It will likely be a humiliation.
However I assume it’s a testomony of how loopy and unsuitable every thing has gotten just lately.
Steve Preziosa
Deptford, NJ
I completely agree with those that argue that there's structural racism in New York Metropolis. It's to be discovered within the metropolis’s Division of Well being and Psychological Hygiene, as reported by The Publish.
The so-called fairness plan for distribution of COVID remedies primarily based on race is nothing greater than reverse racism.
When a authorities well being company makes selections primarily based on race and never science or medical want, this overt racism turns into structural and institutionalized.
Allowing this solely units again Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a color-blind society, to the tragic lack of all folks of fine will.
Bob Porch
Marlton, NJ
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