from Common Dreams
In recent decades, Canada has increasingly bought into an ideology that celebrates the marketplace and denigrates government... At first glance, the question posed by a Canadian medical ethicist might seem thoughtful:If two coronavirus patients are having serious trouble breathing—and one is a 12-year-old child and the other a 74-year-old doctor—who should get the hospital's only available ventilator?But on further thought, this question—asked on a recent CTV news program—seems not just horrifying but also almost … crazy.