{"id":22379,"date":"2020-04-18T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T00:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=22379"},"modified":"2020-04-18T17:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T00:44:51","slug":"covid-19-death-squad-calculus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/covid-19-death-squad-calculus\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 &#038; Death Squad Calculus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=NGRjMDEzODItM2YzOC00ZGI5LTg4NTUtYWI5ZTAxNjI0N2E5&amp;hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwin0MavmPPoAhUNsJ4KHXa7BB8QieUEegQIChAE&amp;ep=6\">https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=NGRjMDEzODItM2YzOC00ZGI5LTg4NTUtYWI5ZTAxNjI0N2E5&amp;hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwin0MavmPPoAhUNsJ4KHXa7BB8QieUEegQIChAE&amp;e<\/a>\n\n\n\n<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=NGRjMDEzODItM2YzOC00ZGI5LTg4NTUtYWI5ZTAxNjI0N2E5&amp;hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwin0MavmPPoAhUNsJ4KHXa7BB8QieUEegQIChAE&amp;ep=6\" target=\"_blank\">Freakonomics Radio &#8211; 413. Who Gets the Ventilator?<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" src=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/plague_victimTorch-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/plague_victimTorch-1.jpg 648w, http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/plague_victimTorch-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/>\n\n<figcaption>V0010596 A man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victim\nCredit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images\nimages@wellcome.ac.uk\nhttp:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\nA man with a torch walking alongside a cart of plague victims; a woman is holding a dead child. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848.\n1848 By: Edward Matthew WardPublished:  &#8211; \n\nCopyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/<\/figcaption>\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\nSeldom is heard more alarming God complex discussions about who has a greater right to life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cut from the same warp &amp; weave as the public discussions heard surrounding when torture was &#8220;OK&#8221; during the Bush administration.\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n<br>The takeaway is if you&#8217;re over a certain age, there&#8217;s little incentive to answer questions about your COVID-19 status\/contacts since you&#8217;re already calculated as disposable and less entitled to life.&nbsp; i.e. The medical establishment and the state are greasing the skids for the very souls most in need and at risk of dying.\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n<br>Anytime people appoint themselves as arbiters of who lives and who dies, bias, discrimination,&nbsp; and prejudice inevitably crop up.&nbsp; What was the point of beating the Nazis only to become just like them?\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n<br>The right to life is self evident.&nbsp; Those who reckon they can parse that natural law with their own arrogant calculus and broken moral compass are delusional, far more dangerous than the virus itself.&nbsp; It is better to be a mouse in a cat&#8217;s jaws than a patient in the hands of these self anointed demigods.\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n\n<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=NGRjMDEzODItM2YzOC00ZGI5LTg4NTUtYWI5ZTAxNjI0N2E5&amp;hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwin0MavmPPoAhUNsJ4KHXa7BB8QieUEegQIChAE&amp;ep=6\" target=\"_blank\">Freakonomics Radio &#8211; 413. Who Gets the Ventilator?<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2ZyZWFrb25vbWljcy1yYWRpbw&amp;episode=NGRjMDEzODItM2YzOC00ZGI5LTg4NTUtYWI5ZTAxNjI0N2E5&amp;hl=en&amp;ved=2ahUKEwin0MavmPPoAhUNsJ4KHXa7BB8QieUEegQIChAE&amp;e Freakonomics Radio &#8211; 413. Who Gets the Ventilator? Seldom is heard more alarming God complex discussions about who has a greater right to life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cut from the same warp &amp; weave as the public discussions heard surrounding when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/covid-19-death-squad-calculus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22379"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22387,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22379\/revisions\/22387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}