Prioritizing Small Business Assistance and Rationing Health Care -- By Race
January, 2022
- We've been hearing a lot lately about "systemic racism." To date, my opinion
has been that institutional racism was beaten back decades ago -- and good riddance.
I'm sad to report it has returned -- and as it was in days gone by, it's coming
from the democrat party.
- President Biden, speaking of "distributing this emergency aid swiftly and equitably"
to small businesses, said priority would be given to "Black, Latino, Asian
and Native-American-owned small businesses, women-owned businesses."
Here's a link to a 27-second video of
President Biden in his own words.
- So, if you take the entire population of small business owners needing assistance
and move to the front of the line Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native-Americans and women,
care to guess who are left at the back of the line? People who look like me -- white males.
So, there you have it -- discrimination based on race and gender -- defined by Biden as "equitable" --
which violates
federal law.
- This thinking has also made its way to providing medical treatment for Covid.
The Texas Health and Human Services department made monoclonal antibody treatments
available to Covid patients following its Emergency Use Authorization by the FDA.
Thanks to a supply shortage, the agency has begun segregating who may receive
the treatment. For as long as the shortage lasts, the state is providing the
treatments only to "high-risk ethnicity groups," while refusing to provide
the same care to whites.
- As a result, a man in Texas with Covid was denied monoclonal antibody treatments.
Why? Because he looked like me. Check out this
23-second video for yourself.
The video/audio aren't the greatest but if you turn the volume up and listen a few times,
you should get the gist of it. The video ends with:
White Male Patient: "I'm being denied medical service because of my race?"
Black Female Health Care Worker: "That's the criteria."
Again, this violates
federal law.
- I get it that the health care worker has nothing to do with the rationing
policy, but imagine the optics if white health care workers were caught
on video denying any medical treatment to black patients -- because they're black.
The uproar would be deafening -- and rightfully so -- but a black health care worker
caught on video denying care to a white man because he's white? Silence. Just
another example of this "White Privilege" we keep hearing about. Sarcasm aside,
this is not only illegal, it's scary.
- Didn't the Obama/Biden administration and democrats assure us health care would
not be rationed? Yes, they did. Are they doing anything to stop this racist policy?
No, they are not.
- Picture this: two patients with Covid needing monoclonal
antibody treatments could be lying side by side. The one who does not look like
me would be eligible for treatment. The one who looks like me would not.
Welcome to "equity."
