Alaska’s Largest Hospital Has Begun Rationing Care, Saying It Has Been Overwhelmed By COVID-19 Patients.
“?PROVIDENCE, ALASKA MEDICAL CENTER, ALASKA’S LARGEST HOSPITAL, ON TUESDAY, SEPT. 14, 2021, IMPLEMENTED CRISIS STANDARDS OF CARE, PRIORITIZING RESOURCES AND TREATMENTS TO THOSE PATIENTS WHO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT THE MOST.”
"Dr. Kristen Solana Walkinshaw is chief of staff at the hospital and says that “we are no longer able to provide the standard of care to each and every patient who needs our help,”
Alaska, like other places, has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases driven by the delta variant of the coronavirus.
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Excerpts from ‘IRONY’:
Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first to expose the oppression of the native peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. His several works include Historia de Las Indias (first printed in 1875). A prolific writer and in his later years an influential figure of the Spanish court, Las Casas nonetheless failed to stay the progressive enslavement of the indigenous peoples of Latin America.
Las Casas was among those denied confession for this reason. ?In December 1511, a Dominican preacher Fray Antonio de Montesinos preached a fiery sermon that implicated the colonists in the genocide of the native peoples. He is said to have preached, "Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude? On what authority have you waged such detestable wars against these people who dealt quietly and peacefully on their own lands? Wars in which you have destroyed such an infinite number of them by homicides and slaughters never heard of before. Why do you keep them so oppressed and exhausted, without giving them enough to eat or curing them of the sicknesses they incur from the excessive labor you give them, and they die, or rather you kill them, in order to extract and acquire gold every day. ?Las Casas himself argued against the Dominicans in favour of the justice of the?encomienda. The colonists, led by Diego Columbus, dispatched a complaint against the Dominicans to the King, and the Dominicans were recalled from Hispaniola.
?Although during his first 12 years in America Las Casas was a willing participant in the conquest of the Caribbean, he did not remain indifferent to the fate of the indigenous peoples…