During swine flu “epidemic” I was taking an ethics class where we were discussing cases like killing of patients (when federal and local government abandoned you).
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A Protestant preacher came to talk to us about tough decisions about ventilators “we won’t have enough for all those premature babies and old people”. The usual. He was a man close to 70 and he had every intention of living. Forever. It seemed to me.
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At the time I was very much tracking swine flu but the main viral vector of transmission (phones) was not present as it is now. Fear and panic lingering did not cross over well from healthcare to the public.
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But that preacher was scared. Scared in a way only an egoist in an individualist culture like America can be. He sure was not thinking of the survival of us as people. Oh no. His thoughts were onto getting a ventilator for himself. And the premature babies, of course.
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At the time I I had no option but to inquire who, in his opinion, would be taking care of the old and the premature if his actions destroy the young, the ones who have children, the ones who do the heavy lifting, the ones who work.
The fool did not think that far.
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The fool did not think that far.
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*lingering=mongering
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