I am still combing through the Executive Orders issued yesterday. This information comes out of the Executive Order on Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery. Whenever I see the word “Equity” show up in a government document I prepare myself for nonsense speak. This is no exception.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated severe and pervasive health and social inequities in America.  For instance, people of color experience systemic and structural racism in many facets of our society and are more likely to become sick and die from COVID-19.  The lack of complete data, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, on COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates, as well as underlying health and social vulnerabilities, has further hampered efforts to ensure an equitable pandemic response.

It looks like they are saying “People of color are hurt more by the pandemic, but we can’t back that up with data, we just know it.”  The very next sentence offers no relief from the crapspeak:

Other communities, often obscured in the data, are also disproportionately affected by COVID-19, including sexual and gender minority groups, those living with disabilities, and those living at the margins of our economy.

I am not sure how a virus singles out people living in the margins of the economy.  We do however eventually get to the reason for all of this garbage talk, the Health Equity Task Force is to make “recommendations for agencies with responsibility for disbursing COVID-19 relief funding regarding how to disburse funds in a manner that advances equity.”

It is just another justification to redistribute wealth to what are defined as “marginalized groups.”