Coronavirus and the Party of Death

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 Coronavirus and the Party of Death
Its hysteria is very selective.

by George Neumayr
March 22, 2020, 12:02 AM

 On the coronavirus channel, CNN, one can always count on regular updates about the number of fatalities from the virus. In hushed tones, the hosts reveal that the “number has reached 150.” Imagine such hosts speaking so gravely about the number of deaths each day from abortion, which is around 4,000. Imagine them putting that number in a box on the bottom of the screen.

Of course, it would never happen. Most of the pundits on CNN who hysterically swoon over coronavirus cases and deaths support abortion and euthanasia. As Wesley Smith points out in National Review Online, one of Joe Biden’s chief advisers on coronavirus is someone who thinks we would all be better off if members of the elderly didn’t live past 75:

    Joe Biden has announced the creation of a “Public Health Advisory Committee,” consisting of Democratic experts, to advise him about how to best grapple with the coronavirus during the campaign. The bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel — a prime architect of Obamacare — is the most famous person on the committee. Why is that important? Emanuel made headlines a few years ago by writing in the Atlantic that he wants to die at age 75 — younger than Joe Biden is today — and he thinks we should want that too. From his piece:

    [“]Here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.[”]

    That’s a terrible attitude about the elderly, a denigrating “quality of life” judgmentalism that deems the value of the old as having less importance than that of younger people.

    And here’s the irony. Who are most at risk of death or serious illness from the coronavirus? The very elderly Emanuel sees as having lives that are “feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.”

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https://spectator.org/coronavirus-and-the-party-of-death/