The pandemic has amplified ageism. 'It's open season for discrimination' against older adults

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As the debate rages over when or how to resume public life, older adults have increasingly seen behavior and rhetoric that implies their lives are not as valuable as reviving the economy.

Stars from the Doors to Prince recorded at Sunset Sounds. Now, the studio is closed for the first time in 60 years, joining hundreds of others shuttered across L.A.last week after his administration advised hospitals to prioritize younger people with greater life expectancy for care during the coronavirus outbreak. Those guidelines were swiftly retracted. They were not, however, without precedent.

The institutional concept of older people being worth less than younger people predates the pandemic. Cass Sunstein, a legal scholar who worked for the Obama administration, once proposed focusing government policies on saving years of life rather than individual lives.The Environmental Protection Agency used a similar calculus during the George W. Bush administration when it was weighing the benefits of power-plant emission regulations.

“We’ve found that those who value and affirm their own meaningful contributions to society can avoid internalizing those stereotypes,” she said On the flip side, Levy’s research shows that older adults with negative attitudes about aging may live 7.5 years less than those with positive attitudes.Carol Liston, 89, says her Studio City neighbors look out for her, even doing her grocery shopping.

 

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TNtales Its alwsys been there. Now its out in the open. If youve ever had an elderly loved one in the hospital, the mentality is, quite literally for healthcate to dump them in a nursing home because basically no other alternative.

JayHart909 implies? implies? IMPLIES? no implying at all, it straight out says it, then expounds on it, then gets amplified and repeated no f*cking 'implies'

CDeBey Welcome to what Trump and co. actually think of you, elderly people. They think you're a drain on resources, and that you should be put on the nearest ice floe and pushed out to sea. This is not new.

Because They're Not. Truth hurts. My life, their life, your life is not that important.

Hahaha stupid donkey 80s babies and boomers finally starting to understand their rich friends don’t give a wet defecation about them lmao 🤣🤣🤣

Finally the truth is written....

If you kill the economy they all die. Then their children die. Then their grandchildren die. You don't know that and you publish news? 🙄

Our society isn't set up to support people through this type of crisis. The last six or so weeks has clearly demonstrated that. The people that can't work from home, don't get paid. Desperation...not personal against the aged.

Nobody gives a shit about Trump. Next

WE COUNT TO

Blame the Nationalists for this sick attitude. Guns and money are their gods.

Just like someone from the corrupt MSM to write. The Democrats and corrupt MSM can’t keep us locked up forever!

Yeah that's why Trump is losing the older vote.

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