01-07-2022, 08:22 PM
(01-07-2022, 07:48 PM)jamincan Wrote:(01-07-2022, 07:25 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Why do you feel it is a fair comparison.
When have we cancelled surgeries because of people who smoke? We are cancelling surgeries because of covid. That is the ONLY reason.
That's only because Covid is new. If we had been dealing with it for the past 50-100 years like smoking and obesity, we wouldn't be cancelling surgeries.
We have been living in a flu epidemic for the past 100 years. We accept a certain number of people being hospitalized and dying because of the flu. Our health care system is built to handle this. We don't discriminate based on flu vaccination status.
I don't think that the fact that Covid is a *new* virus should be sufficient reason to change how we treat people in our medical system.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting? This is a novel situation, how do you think that isn't justification to change how we treat people?
And COVID isn't new, we have a vaccine for it, that's the whole point. People are making a choice to cause our healthcare system to collapse. *I* and people I love shouldn't suffer for their choices.
This isn't like other forms of discrimination, the failure to vaccinate is a DIRECT cause of this suffering.