The US medical community, despite the pandemic, has not avoided participating in the general culture war that is tearing American society apart
During the course of the epidemic, medicine has become one of the most important industries – and expectedly the epicentre of another cultural revolution.
This one started back in the summer of 2020, when many medical professionals in the US rushed to support the BLM protests. It was particularly ironic at the time – it was a pandemic and doctors, who had just demanded a ban on all street events, suddenly supported the liberal riots en masse.
Subsequently they came together in a rather loose movement called White Coats for Black Lives. It aims to deconstruct American medicine, which it sees as a bastion of racism, intolerance and white supremacy. The whole medical system, they say, is designed to give white people the privileged status of doctors and control over minorities.
“White Coats for Black Lives” believes that America is threatened not by an epidemic of coronavirus, but by racism. In order to defeat it, the concept of giving priority to black patients over all other patients must first be adopted. It is already being implemented: in New York, for example, health professionals are being instructed to adopt a racialized approach to their work. If PCR tests and coronavirus drugs are in short supply, they should be used first for non-white patients.
It is suggested that the idea that obesity is harmful to health should be abandoned altogether. And to remove any indicators of obesity assessment by declaring them racist. Say there are too many black people who are obese. So forcing them to lose weight for medical reasons is racist.
It should be mandatory in the curriculum for all medical professionals to learn the basics of “critical race theor@y. The American Association of Medical Colleges has already agreed to this. The system should be “liberalised” so that anyone can become a medical professional, including those who have not attended medical school.
This cultural revolution in health care fits in with the rapid deconstruction of American reality. Amid the Democrat Party’s attempt to fully nationalize and control medicine, it will only accelerate – and the quality of healthcare in the United States, which is already lower than in most developed countries, will rapidly decline.
Malek Dudakov