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Slack.com slash DHQ. We have a vaccine for the coronavirus and now all we need to do is

figure out who gets the vaccine. Should be pretty easy, right? Because we know that older

people are more vulnerable to the virus, younger people basically don't have much risk of death

for the virus. So you just give it to them based on age. No, the New York Times has a different

idea in an article titled The Elderly vs. Essential Workers, who should get the coronavirus

vaccine first. The New York Times has brilliant idea backed up by public health experts is

to give it to non-white people rather than white people because the white people don't

deserve the vaccine. I kid you not. This from Mark Lipsich, an infectious disease epidemiologist

at Harvard says teachers should not be considered essential workers if the goal of the committee

is to reduce health inequities. A quote, teachers have middle class salaries are very often white

and they have college degrees. They should be treated good and everything but not like

other workers. They're white. They don't deserve to live. Next one from, what's this guy's

name? From Harold Schmidt, an expert in ethics ethics and health policy at the University

of Pennsylvania says that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults.

Because not because the workers are essential not because the jobs they're doing are so essential

which is a morally dubious question at best but because quote, older populations are whiter.

Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional

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