If your 90-year-old grandma, who had Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and COPD, got hit by a drunk driver and killed, and some jerk implied that we don’t actually have to grieve her loss or reconsider public policy about driving while intoxicated because she had so many preexisting illnesses and was dying anyway, you would probably want to punch that person.
If your 6-year-old child, who was born with a congenital heart defect and had Type 1 diabetes, got salmonella at Applebee’s and died, and some jerk implied that we don’t actually need to reexamine food safety rules and health codes in restaurants because a healthy adult wouldn’t have died of that salmonella infection, you’d probably want to do more than punch that person.
That’s what all this talk about comorbidities and COVID sounds like to me. It sounds like a lot of people saying that the lives of all people who are not “healthy” (whatever that means) and who have preexisting conditions, autoimmune diseases, chronic illnesses, disabilities, or just plain advanced age just aren’t worth caring about all that much. Sure, it’s kind of sad when old people in a nursing home die en masse like they’re in Flanders field, but it’s not a big enough deal for me to accept even a minor inconvenience to my life, right?
It’s disgusting, and I don’t know how anyone can consider themselves a good person while also actively promoting or supporting eugenics.
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