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Yes, hippocratic oath be damned.

• JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > hippocratic oath be damned Triage doesn’t violate the Hippocratic oath. Allocating limited medical resources is sometimes a necessity. That said, yes, they shouldn’t be refused. We don’t refuse the mentally ill or others who self harm. But unless it can be shown to be a product of mental illness, the voluntarily unvaccinated should be on the hook for the cost of their treatment.
  • lotsofpulp 5y ago
    Why should vaccinated people be denied healthcare resources because the resources are being exhausted by people choosing to ignore medical professionals advice and refuse to get a free vaccine?
    • JumpCrisscross 5y ago
      > Why should vaccinated people be denied healthcare resources because they are overloaded by people choosing to ignore medical professionals advice and refuse to get a free vaccine? If hospitals are full the voluntarily unvaccinated should be de-prioritised. (If they recover, they’re going to be right back in with the next variant.) But if the hospitals aren’t full, there is no reason to refuse care.
      • lotsofpulp 5y ago
        At the rate with which hospitalizations are occurring, and volatility of the situation, the only viable strategy is to simply turn many of them away and leave a lot of hospital capacity for slack. Hospitals cannot roll the gurneys out into the street and dump non vaccinated people when they need to make room. Once admitted, they can occupy lots of resources for lots of days, so I say just make it easy and tell them to hit the road for the time being. I do not even see a reason why elective procedures should be affected by the selfishness of non vaccinated people.