09-17-2021, 10:04 PM
Bottom line, the cure for Covid is vaccination, period.
By not getting vaccinated, people are choosing not to be treated for Covid. People don’t have the right to choose the most expensive treatment on the taxpayers’ dime. They especially don’t have the right to reject doctors and science when it comes to choosing whether or not to be vaccinated, then suddenly trust in doctors and science when they become infected. Maybe if they’re paying for their own health care.
If there happens to be spare capacity then fine, don’t deny care. But it’s totally absurd to prioritize fixing someone’s bad decision that they made on their own over the needs of someone else who isn’t responsible for their own trouble.
As to why this same logic doesn’t apply to other behaviours, the fact that we’re in a pandemic is the real difference. People will always do foolish things and we are a sufficiently wealthy society that we can and should afford to maintain a health care system which can clean up a certain amount of these messes. But we can’t suddenly expand capacity enough to clean up after all the anti-vaxxers.
By not getting vaccinated, people are choosing not to be treated for Covid. People don’t have the right to choose the most expensive treatment on the taxpayers’ dime. They especially don’t have the right to reject doctors and science when it comes to choosing whether or not to be vaccinated, then suddenly trust in doctors and science when they become infected. Maybe if they’re paying for their own health care.
If there happens to be spare capacity then fine, don’t deny care. But it’s totally absurd to prioritize fixing someone’s bad decision that they made on their own over the needs of someone else who isn’t responsible for their own trouble.
As to why this same logic doesn’t apply to other behaviours, the fact that we’re in a pandemic is the real difference. People will always do foolish things and we are a sufficiently wealthy society that we can and should afford to maintain a health care system which can clean up a certain amount of these messes. But we can’t suddenly expand capacity enough to clean up after all the anti-vaxxers.