NYT: People are Dying. Whom do we save first with the Vaccine?

With limited doses available, and a pandemic claiming more lives every day, a complex moral calculus has begun. Five thinkers weigh the choices ahead.

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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NY Times: In mid-December, before a key vote by an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a public debate flared up over what might well be the most momentous policy decision of 2021: how to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine.

This particular fight centered on how to balance the vaccination of seniors (who die from the coronavirus at much higher rates than younger people) against that of essential workers (who, because they come into contact with many people over the course of any given day, risk getting sick themselves and becoming superspreaders).

That debate was just the first of what will be many contentious ones in the months to come, when supplies of Covid vaccine will surely be among the world’s most precious, scarce resources.

The calculation of how to prioritize various groups inevitably touches on all the fault lines that divide American society — race, class, age, geography, occupation and more — and ultimately bleeds into the question of our ethical obligations to the poorer nations of the world, which risk being forced to wait for lifesaving vaccine supplies while the wealthy save themselves first.



More starkly than most policy choices, these decisions will essentially determine who dies and who lives. We brought together five experts to talk about the collective ethical judgments that the world faces — and a logistical challenge that’s as epic in scale as the pandemic itself.  read more…

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  1. This race for vaccine rescue looks more like an advertising complicity for the labs’ dough than an altruistic operation! Indeed, until the day before the start of these heavy cash operations against the public treasury of the States, the medical community recognized that the vaccination mechanism against a virus, different from that of microbes, did not allow the manufacture a vaccine. This is what had led this same honest medicine not to use it against AIDS. The solution was quickly found with the tri-therapy.
    Question: Did the immense greed of these Labs succeed in making a deal with the virus … or are we witnessing one more monstrous deception swindle?
    By simple logic, the first line of research can only be Israel and the middle of Rabbi Rosenbaum in NJ. Indeed, they were the first – in all the history of humanity – to have organized the slaughter of human beings to sell their organs, which suggests that they are at the forefront of this new type of ” medicine “.²

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