Ex-Bush Speechwriter Urges Putting Unvaccinated Last in Line for Medical Care
(by Calvin Freiburger | LifeSite News) – As debate continues to rage over COVID-19 vaccines and the broader state of pandemic healthcare, sympathizers with the medical establishment have grown bolder in their advocacy of denying basic treatment to those who do not follow their preferred choices.
David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and American Enterprise Institute fellow and current MSNBC contributor and senior editor of The Atlantic, raised eyebrows over the weekend by suggesting that hospitals be allowed to “quietly triage emergency care” so that the “malignant minority” that declines the COVID shots for moral reservations and/or safety concerns is served “last”:
Seems the best option is
1) Keep encouraging vaccines and boosters;
2) Impose vaccine mandates where it can be done;
3) Otherwise return to normal as fully as we can, especially the schools; and
4) Let hospitals quietly triage emergency care to serve the unvaccinated last
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021
Frum, who is far from the first prominent media figure to advocate such “triage,” elicited hundreds of disgusted replies from people horrified at the prospect of using the medical system to effectively punish people for disfavored choices, with potentially life-altering or life-ending consequences:
I wonder if this dude realizes that anyone who sees him drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes or eating unhealthy food now, based on his principles of why unvaccinated people should receive care last has the right to say the same of him should he find himself with lung cancer. 🙄 https://t.co/5uMI2h6mcy
— Jingle Bell Rocker (@Tiffkearney) December 13, 2021