{"id":17827,"date":"2021-04-06T17:12:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=17827"},"modified":"2021-04-06T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:12:56","slug":"woke-medicine-in-vermont-wrong-race-no-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/04\/06\/woke-medicine-in-vermont-wrong-race-no-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke Medicine in Vermont: Wrong Race? No Vaccine For You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Declaring \u201cracism\u201d to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/08\/06\/racism-as-health-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public health crisis<\/a>, with \u201cracism\u201d as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/07\/30\/woke-medicine-mandatory-in-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disease<\/a>\u201d to be cured by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/12\/17\/anti-racism-infects-the-american-medical-association\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">woke medicine<\/a>\u201d seemed at best to be rhetorical flourish. It has already been noted earlier that the pseudo-logic of this would <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/01\/14\/quick-takes-woke-medicine-vaccines-as-social-justice-racism-as-a-disease-discrimination-as-healthcare\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">require racial discrimination in healthcare<\/a> including denying the vaccine to people of the \u201cincorrect\u201d race in order to priorities those of \u201ccorrect\u201d races; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/karen-townsend\/2021\/04\/02\/republican-governor-prioritizes-minority-communities-covid-19-vaccinations-vermont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/libertyunyielding.com\/2021\/04\/02\/vermont-limits-access-to-covid-vaccine-based-on-race-which-is-unconstitutional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/vermont-endorses-racial-preferences-in-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2021\/04\/vermont-governor-gives-people-over-age-16-who-identify-as-non-white-covid-vaccine-priority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually<\/a> happening under the <em>Republican<\/em> Governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovPhilScott\/status\/1377605174320099335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vermont<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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! Get yours at \u2935\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVgb9rzQPn\">https:\/\/t.co\/hVgb9rzQPn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Governor Phil Scott (@GovPhilScott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovPhilScott\/status\/1377605174320099335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16837\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16837\" class=\"wp-image-16837 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/doctor-check-your-privilege.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/doctor-check-your-privilege.jpg 301w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/doctor-check-your-privilege-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile\u2026 in Vermont.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prioritizing people based on race <em>per se<\/em>, and not even a medical need that may correlate with one race or another, is repugnant to equality under the law. But this is the logical outcome of \u201csocial justice\u201d as applied to medicine: Everyone has a \u201cright\u201d to medicine, but some will have more of a \u201cright\u201d than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Not the right race? To the back of the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">bus<\/span> <em>ambulance<\/em> with you!<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Woke Medicine in Vermont Wrong Race No Vaccine\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Declaring 'racism' to be a public health crisis, with \u201cracism\u201d as a 'disease' to be cured by 'woke medicine' seemed at best to be rhetorical flourish.  It has already been noted earlier that the pseudo-logic of this would require racial discrimination in healthcare including denying the vaccine to people of the 'incorrect' race in order to priorities those of 'correct' races; this is now actually happening under the Republican Governor of Vermont.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/doctor-check-your-privilege.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Declaring \u201cracism\u201d to be a public health crisis, with \u201cracism\u201d as a \u201cdisease\u201d to be cured by \u201cwoke medicine\u201d seemed at best to be rhetorical flourish. It has already been noted earlier that the pseudo-logic of this would require racial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/04\/06\/woke-medicine-in-vermont-wrong-race-no-vaccine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[33,24,48,68],"class_list":["post-17827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-progressives","tag-gop","tag-leviathan","tag-social-justice","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17851,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17827\/revisions\/17851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}