Biden’s Coronavirus Adviser Wants to Die at 75
https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...-to-die-at-75/
Interesting article. I picked up on this while listening to a talk radio show.
Here's some quotes from the article.
Joe Biden has announced the creation of a “Public Health Advisory Committee,” consisting of Democratic experts to advise him about how to best grapple with the coronavirus during the campaign. Okay. Good public-health practices are worthy goals for any candidate.The bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel — a prime architect of Obamacare — is the most famous person on the committee. Why is that important? Emanuel made headlines a few years ago by writing in The Atlantic that he wants to die at age 75 — younger than Joe Biden is today — and he thinks we should want that too. From his piece:Here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.And here’s the irony. Who are most at risk of death or serious illness from the coronavirus? The very elderly Emanuel sees as having lives that are “feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.”This is from a famous advisor on the presumptive Democrat party's nominee for the coronavirus, and brother of former Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Remember that famous quote he said while Obama's Chief of Staff? "never let a serious crisis go to waste." Now...is that influence also affecting decisions made by other Democrat party leaders?Emanuel’s advice, written in the hope that the rest of us will also “think of an alternative to succumbing to that slow constriction of activities and aspirations imperceptibly imposed by aging,” is particularly relevant to this particular moment in time in which the elderly are mortally threatened by a viral epidemic:What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out. Certainly if there were to be a flu pandemic, a younger person who has yet to live a complete life ought to get the vaccine or any antiviral drugs.A big challenge is antibiotics for pneumonia or skin and urinary infections. Antibiotics are cheap and largely effective in curing infections. It is really hard for us to say no. Indeed, even people who are sure they don’t want life-extending treatments find it hard to refuse antibiotics. But, as Osler reminds us, unlike the decays associated with chronic conditions, death from these infections is quick and relatively painless. So, no to antibiotics.
That isn’t all:Obviously, a do-not-resuscitate order and a complete advance directive indicating no ventilators, dialysis, surgery, antibiotics, or any other medication—nothing except palliative care even if I am conscious but not mentally competent—have been written and recorded. In short, no life-sustaining interventions. I will die when whatever comes first takes me.
Is that the kind of advice Emanuel is giving to Joe Biden?
If you do a search on anything like "coronavirus nursing homes new york", you get article after article about what happened in New York. Why did Governor Cuomo force nursing homes to take in people infected with coronavirus?
- Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus nursing home policy proves tragic: Goodwin
- Coronavirus spreads in a New York nursing home forced to take recovering patients
- Coronavirus patients admitted to Queens nursing home — with body bags
Remember the book, "Solyent Green"? When you reached a certain age, you went into this booth...and became solyent green, a food for the masses. Some of those sci-fi books that we read decades ago, seem to have relevance today.
If you had a policy of not giving anything but pain killers to infected people over 75 as Emanuel advocates, you'd cut the cost of Social Security, Medicare, retirement funds that in the red...lots of "benefits" to some policy makers.
It's just food for thought.
Chris
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