09-18-2021, 12:39 AM
(09-18-2021, 12:09 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(09-17-2021, 11:17 PM)jeffster Wrote: 1) People have the right to choose or not to choose medical procedure (which a vaccine shot is). This is constitutional.
Right, but they don’t have the right to make that decision with no consequences.
It simply doesn’t make sense to reject science and medicine by refusing the vaccine, and then run back to the hospital when one gets sick, and I don’t see why the rest of us should be forced to subsidize this behaviour.
You know what, I agree to a degree. Totally. But I also feel the same way when it comes to subsidizing smokers, alcoholics, addicts, lazy people, etc. All these people are ALSO rejecting science and medicine regarding their choice.
The difference is: you reject the vaccine, the chances of you becoming seriously ill and needed an ICU bed is incredible rare. Especially if you practice all of the other recommendations. However, if you're a heavy smoker, heavy drinking, for example, the chances of you needing an ICU is pretty much guaranteed at some point in your life. My grandmother certainly didn't escape that. Neither did my step-granddad. At least with grandma, she stop her drinking and smoking ways, died a home a few years later. Step granddad didn't, so he got that wonderful opportunity of dying in a hospital, hooked to a ventilator, for 6 months. He was 98 though, so, he likely didn't believe it was the smoking or drinking.