> Race is a statistical risk factor for covid because it correlates with numerous conditions like lower vaccination rates, higher obesity in some groups, worse medical care and so on.
This is plainly stated in the article. As is the fact that people with medical conditions (like obesity, or things that are the result of poor medical care) are already prioritized. Vaccination status is not.
His hypothesis seems to be that prioritizing non-white people is an attempt to prioritize unvaccinated people (seeing as the other risk factors are already being accounted for). He is claiming that it is more acceptable to exclude white people from the treatment than it is to say that you are giving preference to people who are unvaccinated.
This is in violation of the NY state constitution and the federal one.
Should we then start separating whites from non-whites since the latter are more at risk of being desease carriers? Why not separate water fountains! And what about basing our policing on crime stats? Should we stop and frisk certain groups known to be statistically more inclined to commit criminal acts?
> You don't go through a list of people and rank them individually.
That's litterally what they are paid to do. It's called triage.