Pretty appalling

This is pretty appalling on Twitter.  Twitter uses a technique whenever a tweet contains information they believe to be incorrect or an opinion which they wish to discourage.  When you click on retweet, instead of retweeting, it offers a message asking whether you really want to retweet that message.  Like a nagging old biddy with eccentric opinions and a minuscule storehouse of knowledge. 

Sometimes the nags are amusing, always irritating, but I just encountered one that is pretty appalling.  

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Atlantic Magazine's Ed Yong has a new article out which Atlantic is promoting.  It’s a Terrible Idea to Deny Medical Care to Unvaccinated People by Ed Yong.  The subheading is "Omicron is pushing hospitals to their limit, but the medical system still has an ethical responsibility to all patients—no matter the choices they make."

Pretty uncontroversial one might have thought.  Hippocratic oath and all that.  We treat STDs no matter the choices the patient made.  We treat lung cancer even though the patient may have been a smoker.  It is just plain human universalism - you alleviate suffering where you can.  You tend the patient as they are regardless of race, religion, culture, sexual orientation or political affiliation.  We are humans and we (should) care for other humans.

But as you can see, Twitter does not subscribe to human universalism.  They believe that alleviating suffering and tending the ill regardless of who they are is a dangerous idea which they wish to discourage.  

Seems like Twitter is a proponent of the CRT approach in which hospitals dispense care and services based on race and based on life choices of the suffering.

Disgusting.