07-16-2021, 12:26 PM
(07-16-2021, 12:05 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: So possibly we cannot achieve it. Ultimately, I'm not sure what the answer will be, but at a certain point, we have to get somewhere, and the biggest threat is the hospital system. Perhaps, people who refuse to vaccinate shouldn't get a bed when they get sick.
The medical system doesn’t like doing this. But, in the absence of unlimited resources, it would be bizarre to ignore individuals’ own choices in prioritizing care. Unvaccinated people have no business taking up all the beds and denying them to vaccinated people who still managed to get infected or who have a non-Covid-related problem.
I’m not sure what the line is, but Covid is a big enough single event with an obvious enough and essentially zero-cost avoidance strategy that this would be a good place to start. It’s not like saying that somebody who injured themselves diving shouldn’t have been … doing sports at all, in the limit.
Of course, start by not allowing any non-patients in the building (in particular, employees) who are not fully vaccinated. There is absolutely zero ethical problem with that whatsoever, not really anything to discuss except for the rules around issuing medical exemptions related to allergies and the like.