2014: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/10/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
2022: https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/the-beyblade-strategy-or-how-we-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-focused-protection/
Ezekiel Emanuel, coronavirus advisor to the Biden transition team and best known for his belief that life isn’t as valuable after 75, used this argument explicitly in a February 18th appearance on MSNBC, saying: “I think we do have to acknowledge their fears … but there are 330 million Americans, about 7 million are immunocompromised, about 2.5%. The other 97.5% of Americans can’t continue to wear masks just to protect them.” The problem with this is that Emanuel is using the most restrictive definition of “immunocompromised” possible when he cites the population size as 2.5%, or 7 million people. According to Dr. Amanda Stevenson’s analysis of 2020 National Health interview survey data, the figure is likely closer to 38 million people (or 11% of the population).
PMC: "no, we cannot care about those people, our spreadsheets say their lives don't matter"
also PMC: "noooo, Stalinists are EVIL, you need to care about the lives of neoliberal eugenicists like me and my deadeyed brother Rahm!"
Didn’t this dude write the Book of Rage?