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> People don't like to risk their lives for people who won't help themselves. That's an entirely reasonable position that I can understand - my advice to those
by InvertedRhodium 5y ago
> People don't like to risk their lives for people who won't help themselves.
That's an entirely reasonable position that I can understand - my advice to those people would be to avoid careers in which they are required to risk their lives for people who won't help themselves.
There's a good reason I'm not a police officer, doctor, fireman, etc. The risk/reward payoff in those careers is far, far too low.
- BoorishBears 5y agoWhat on earth are you blathering about? Comparing armed police sent in to deal with possibly armed suspects... firefighters who get sent into infernos... with doctors. The risks doctors normally face from one patient to another are identical, so it was nonsensical to say they were risking their life for a specific patient. Especially since we've known how to protect from _normal_ bloodborne and airborne pathogens for a long time. The difference is COVID had no vaccine and treatment was limited at the time, it was repeatedly a death sentence. That's why COVID already forced a rethinking of how far we expect providers to go to save someone: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.006779 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.006... There's a good reason you're not a doctor, let's leave it at that.