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Why do the vaccinated accept this? Honest question, because I imagined the breaking point for vaccinated folks to be before there's literally zero space for the
by Beldin 5y ago
Why do the vaccinated accept this? Honest question, because I imagined the breaking point for vaccinated folks to be before there's literally zero space for their medical emergencies due to folks who made a different choice.
I mean, you don't want anyone left behind. But if you're forced to leave someone behind, the question becomes "who?". If you have one emergency bed and in comes a drunk driver from an accident, shortly followed by the pregnant woman he ran over, I'm not a big fan of "first come, first served".
If and when doctors are forced into heinous choices, I'd think such considerations should play a role - for society allocating scarce resources, at the very least.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI agree, so long as we’re not expecting doctors to do triage, which I believe they generally don’t. Triage is generally don’t by specially trained nurses, as I understand it.
- rbanffy 5y agoCan we trust a nurse who refuses to be vaccinated to do the Right Thing at this moment?
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI meant “generally done by”
- juanani 5y agoCant we just kill off the non vaccinated already? Hrmph
- 3np 5y agoIANAD and don't have a great source for this, but I've both heard and read about some variety of "professional code" or "best practices" where MDs are expected to leave their personal convictions aside when deciding and prioritizing who gets what care. I may personally agree with the exact situation you describe, but relying on "common sense" breaks fast at scale. If the doctor(s) making the call are devout adherents of some religious sect, would you prefer that they prioritize the drunken driver above the pregnant woman who needs an abortion of the child that was conceived out of bedlock? Or denying care to the heroin addict ODing? IMO, completely removing moral judgment from the medical evaluation process is a net positive. This doesn't have to mean "first come, first serve", and I assume it doesn't in most places.