I spoke weeks ago, before anyone else, about a likely gender discrimination involved in treatment of COVID-19 for an explanation of the question "why do men die at a rate that is 2 times higher?".
Suffice to say, in times of crisis it is usually men who forfeit their lives whether we are discussing a plague, a war, or Titanic or other catastrophes. There is a social discrimination in place which prioritizes women's lives and if you look at the proposed frameworks for rationing medical supplies in the West when faced with shortages, you can see what I'm talking about.
Women will be treated first.
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To prove my point* on gender discrimination in respect to COVID-19 Patients, consider this: According to
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ men have an overall COVID-19 global deathrate of 2.8% of all cases, women of 1.7% of all cases. Men and women tend to become infected at a similar rate, but men die more. So according to that number, men who contract COVID-19 are just under twice as likely to die as women, because 1.7+1.7=3.4, and men are at 2.8%, so a man is just under twice as likely to die as a woman.
HOWEVER, in nations such as Italy, where medical equipment such as beds and ventilators needs to be rationed and Doctors need to choose out of 2 patients which 1 gets the 1 available ventilator,
that ratio changes and men actually become more than twice as likely to die than women. Of course, the situation in Italy is Doctors have a shortage of equipment and needs to choose which patients receive the ICU Beds and life saving ventilators. This article:
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-19-mortality-high-men-italy-women/story?id=69717021 suggests men make up more than 70% of deaths in Italy to women's 30%, which means men in Italy are MORE than twice as likely to die as women, which is more than the global ratio.
The CONCLUSION from that is that when Hospitals are faced with decisions about which patients to save with a limited number of beds and ventilators., they typically will treat women first.
It will be impossible to prove biases on a racial level as the data will never be available on a racial case basis like it is for gender, but I would also suggest that there are likely racial biases in treatment depending on where you are. For example, in Italy a tremendous desire to appear nonracist contributed to open borders even after the virus entered Italy in the first place. I posted a source in the thread specific to Italy, but
members of Italian healthcare even admitted on CNN no less that a racial bias or desire to appear nonracist contributed to not closing the borders and further spreading COVID 19. This same racial bias will also be observed in treatment. As in, Doctors will want to be as diverse as possible in making these decisions.
Ultimately if you are sick and need a ventilator, and it's between you and 1 other person. The Doctor decides.
Keep in mind that as Western Nations ration scarce medical beds and ventilators it will be prioritized for women and in such a way to appear diverse and inclusive. Moreover Western Nations have pretty much confirmed that through frameworks for rationing ventilators that have been published on mainstream media.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/coronavirus-disabilities-rationing-ventilators-triage.html
Many Western media sources guidelines for rationing ventilators are based on a policy of non-discrimination and inclusivity,
NOT on actually saving lives. Even in terms of age, they are not supposed to necessarily give younger people the equipment (though in most countries that would be common sense, because they have a greater likelihood of surviving and recover quicker, allowing someone else to be treated).
Technically, if you read Western nations' guidelines for determining which patients to treat in event of a medical equipment shortage such as ventilators, even patients with bad health, disabilities, and a small likelihood of surviving should receive the same level of treatment as someone in good health and with a much better chance of survival.
This desire to be inclusive, and non-discriminatory is backwards and will end up killing more people. The West is prioritizing liberalism at the expense of rational decision making, just as the case with keeping the border open despite knowing China had an infectious disease problem.
The goal in the West is diversity.
When the goal should really be rational decision making which saves lives.
But the West has been entirely irrational since this crisis started. As I said:
Evolution fixing humanity's problems, the unintelligent will die and that's how a plague always goes historically, maybe this virus will take the entire Western world out, on some level maybe that's what is meant to happen and it could happen depending if the virus mutates next year. I'm assuming the vaccines will also need to be ordered and sent in from China? (Lol).
