Commentary Last April, the influential New England Journal of Medicine published an advocacy column by a medical school professor that argued, “To promote equity, the Biden administration should distribute resources differentially in order to benefit groups that are persistently disadvantaged.” Translated from Woke-speak, that means creating a medical system that discriminates against people who are not of color. COVID-19 provided the convenient pretext for that process to begin. With the pandemic still raging—and therapeutics in inexcusably short supply—several jurisdictions established protocols to guide doctors in deciding which patients should receive needed treatment first. Establishing such priorities in a time of resource shortages is ethical when based strictly on medical criteria rather than ideological considerations. In other words, priorities should never be predicated on invidious distinctions, such as race, sex, wealth, sexual orientation, disability, etc. Alas, equity mongers in a few states have set priorities based, in part, on invidious categories …