{"id":216360,"date":"2020-11-11T06:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T06:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216360"},"modified":"2020-11-13T07:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T07:50:55","slug":"bidens-covid-19-advisory-team-features-death-panel-doc-who-claimed-dying-at-75-is-not-a-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=216360","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Covid-19 advisory team features \u2018death panel\u2019 doc who suggested dying at 75 is \u2018not a tragedy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 Nov 11, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Ezekiel Emanuel<\/p><\/div>\n

Presumptive US president-elect Joe Biden\u2019s pandemic advisory team includes oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel, who famously argued life should end at 75. Given Covid-19\u2019s risk profile \u2013and Biden\u2019s own age\u2013 the choice has raised eyebrows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s team unveiled a 13-person expert advisory panel focused on managing the Covid-19 epidemic on Monday, in keeping with the campaign\u2019s efforts to present Biden as the champion of science and reason. One of the panel\u2019s goals, according to a statement from Biden, is \u201cprotecting at-risk populations<\/em>\u201d \u2013 the elderly, the sick, and those with multiple comorbidities.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Emanuel is perhaps best known for supporting a limit on human life expectancy of 75 \u2013 an age, it\u2019s hard not to notice, that coincides with a steep observed uptick in vulnerability to and risk of dying from the novel coronavirus. In a 2014 article<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for the Atlantic, the University of Pennsylvania medical ethicist argued the US shouldn\u2019t worry that its population\u2019s average life expectancy is among the lowest in the developed world, because living too long was just as bad as dying prematurely.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was also one of the chief architects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act\u2019s \u201cdeath panels<\/em>\u201d \u2013 an ethical framework<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for rationing healthcare based on the age, fitness, and presumed future productive capacity of the patient. Emanuel has argued for decades that the young should be given priority in healthcare over the old, an argument he carried into this year\u2019s coronavirus pandemic \u2013 and which has made itself felt in troubling ways both in the US and abroad as some hospitals sneaked \u2018do not resuscitate\u2019 orders into the folders of some of their most vulnerable patients.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emanuel also stands accused of profiting off the confusing pandemic guidance implemented under the Trump administration, which shied away from blanket restrictions, leaving space for states to pass their own patchwork of regulations. As a consultant at COVID-19 RECoVERY Consulting, he is paid to decipher \u201cconfusing<\/em>\u201d science and offer guidance to businesses petrified of running afoul of rules that often come with fines or steep penalties attached.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel thinks Joe Biden should have died 2 years ago. https:\/\/t.co\/xGQAOj2Ok0<\/a><\/p>\n

— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n