This is Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old coronavirus patient
Because he is a quadriplegic, doctors said his "quality of life" would be too low to be treated
So over the course of 6 days, they starved him to death
Michael was a Black man.Did his life not matter?
Black people STOP being deceived by these marxist parasites.They DON'T give a shit about you.They are emotionally manipulating you to adopt and endorse their warped ideology and will treat US ALL the same way as Michael was treated when we lose our "economic value" in their global factory.The free market and liberty is the best guarantor of freedom.Marxists are squandering your tax dollars.This is why there is inequality and why our economies are bankrupted and we are ALL sold into bondage to the elite.Utopia for them/Dystopia for us.Socialism for them/Communism for us.Marxists DON'T care about you.Marxists only care about marxism and climbing up it's ladder ;-)
You couldn't make this shit up for an orwellian movie script and these are the "useful idiots" advising our governments.
Ok then,as this thread is now dealing with COVID-19 related incidence this post remains on topic for both OP and COVID-19.
Michael got COVID-19 and was put in the hospital. A paraplegic who could not walk or easily talk, he clearly interacted with his family, laughing at jokes and enjoying songs. Due to complex disagreements over his care, however, medical decision-making was taken from his wife.
That's when his white doctor decided, along with his appointed guardian, aggressive medical treatment was no longer appropriate for him.
It would have been one thing if the argument was that treatment was burdensome. A case can be made for this when it comes to ventilation.
But the doctor even denied Michael getting the important drug (for COVID patients) remdesivir...despite the fact that it is best used apart from ventilation. cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/study-remdesivir-benefits-some-covid-19-patients
Why did Michael's doctor deny him this potentially life-saving drug?
He didn't think Michael should live.
Don't believe me? Listen to the legal recording yourself. youtube.com/watch?v=jq-_gtjnzZg&feature=youtu.be The doctor says, "Cause as of right now, his quality of life...he doesn't have much of one." And then he confirms he's talking about Michael's disabilities.
The doctor makes several damning statements, but this one takes the cake. After explaining that he'd seen three other patients survive in similar cases, he says quite directly that what makes this case different is that Michael has disabilities the other three did not have.
Dr. Gutierrez is one of the few physicians who have spoken directly about what happened in this case. Her thread below is worth reading in its entirety. Doctors are good at protecting their own, but we need more brave people like her to speak truth.
Doctors rate quality of life of patients worse than patients do themselves.
And African Americans have long been understandably fearful of explicit and structural racism in medicine, especially at the end of life.
#MichaelHickson's case is a paradigmatic example of both.
We need #medtwitter to confront its racism and ableism.
At this moment, one would think major media and racial justice activists would hold doctors and medicine in general accountable for this. But they aren't.
Again, it appears to be only pro-life and disability activists.