A recent report from NBC News Channel 10 in Boston made my head spin, and I quote it in full below:

The Mass General Brigham Hospital system is making a major change and it will impact their youngest patients.

The hospital will no longer report suspected abuse or neglect to the solely if a newborn baby tests positive for drugs after birth.

Instead, hospitals will now require written consent before conducting a drug test on the expectant mother or infant, in most cases.

Mass General Brigham said the move is to address the “racial and ethnic inequities” present in healthcare, adding that substance abuse disorder in the context of pregnancy more “disproportionately affects Black individuals.”

NBC News Channel 10 Boston

Let’s think this one through for a moment. 

A baby is born with drugs in its system, which is a clear and unmistakable indication that newborn is returning from the hospital to an unsafe home environment because, as is plainly obvious, drug-addled mothers are typically not great caregivers. Child welfare authorities must be aware of the danger facing that baby so they they can intervene and provide protection.

However, the Mass General Brigham Hospital system believes that these critically-necessary child welfare reports might tend to stigmatize Black people in general because, as one can readily infer from their statement, a lot of the babies born in their hospitals with drugs in their systems are born to Black mothers because the reporting “disproportionately affects Black individuals.” Ergo, in order to reduce these “racial and ethnic inequities”, mothers and babies will not be tested for drugs without written permission.

Let’s have a pop quiz now: How many women who used drugs leading up to their delivery do you think are going consent to a drug test for either themselves or their baby?

Not very many, I would guess, which means the lives of a lot of babies will be sacrificed on the altar of Woke insanity, and a lot of idiot ultra-liberals will be strangely content with the death and despair their inane political correctness will cause. Righteous Wokeness will, to their bizarre way of thinking, vanquish racism and all its evils—by sacrificing a lot of innocent black babies.

This . . . is . . . so . . . wrong. 

The report from any hospital regarding the drugs found in a baby’s body is a duty and obligation of the hospital where that child was born, and to fail to do so constitutes a gross dereliction of their medical and ethical obligations that violates the professional oaths of both the doctors and nurses involved. This seems obvious, but apparently it somehow is not.

Much is abundantly out of wack in our troubled country right now, and a great many of the severe problems we are creating for ourselves are happening because rigid Leftist ideologues are hell-bent on ignoring reality—and we are all suffering as a result.

The list of the utter craziness being forced upon our nation beggars believe, and just the highlights are enough to make one cry.

Unrestrained borrowing and spending has driven unending price inflation that is straining household budgets throughout our nation. Our porous borders have led to an unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants, which is crushing municipal budgets, overwhelming our public schools, and driving up housing costs. Continuing efforts to hamstring and defund law enforcement, coupled with a frightening epidemic of judicial indifference toward convicting and incarcerating criminals, has caused a national crime wave and driven record sales of firearms and ammunition for self-defense. The intense—and inappropriate—interest in the sexuality of children and adolescents exhibited by an array of medical professionals, educators, and nosey government bureaucrats should concern every parent in America. The vast majority of the “jobs” created over the past three years have been part-time “McJobs”, which has pushed many into holding two or three positions simultaneously just to survive. Climate cultists are determined to push Americans into wildly expensive and unreliable electric vehicles, which the vast majority of consumers do not want. Our nation’s foreign policy, which unhappily seems to be a toxic mix of determined stupidity and equally determined wishful thinking, is making our world a far more dangerous place and increasing the risk of global warfare each and every day.

I could go on and on, but the single thread that connects all these ongoing disasters is an incredible disregard for the actual outcomes of Leftist policies. The focus is instead on the warm, fuzzy feelings that the obliviously unrealistic theories behind these ideas enjoy in many sectors of government, academia, the mainstream news media, and our legal establishment. 

Perhaps never before in our nation’s history has there been such a cataclysmic disconnect between reality and fantasy, and the outcomes have been wrecking our country over the past several years. It should be apparent that mind games and virtue signaling must not be privileged over the health, safety, and prosperity of our citizens, but the obvious blindness of the vociferous Leftists pushing one policy catastrophe after another on the American people is standing in the way of sanity. The bloodlust of the Angry Woke God and its acolytes is terrifying to behold, and we must resist the maniacal fixations of those who apparently cannot escape the hive mind of unbending allegiance to deeply damaging hallucinations that are destroying our nation and citizens. 

To continue as we are is madness, and a change of direction cannot come soon enough.