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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 01:28 AM Sep 2021

Should It Happen?

A growing number of US hospitals are being overwhelmed by having to treat Covid patients who chose to be unvaccinated, and therefore lack the resources to treat patients with other medical emergencies that require immediate care.

People are dying as a result. People who could have been saved were hospital beds available, along with the availability of doctors and nurses to treat them - medical personnel who are instead caring for those who brought their own fate upon themselves.

The "cure" for this situation is obvious: unvaccinated Covid patients should be turned away from hospitals, so that patients who didn't jeopardize themselves, their families, and their communities have full access to the medical treatment they require.

This may seem a heartless approach - but how heartless is it for someone who claimed being unvaccinated was a "personal choice", knowing full well that choice could mean death for others?

The facts are out there. The stats are out there. And those who continue to ignore and/or dismiss them in the name of "personal freedom" are literally killing people on a daily basis - those they've directly infected, and those who are dying for lack of medical care.

Watching hospitals treating the willingly unvaxxed while turning away people in dire need of treatment is like watching random shooters armed with assault weapons being treated for self-inflicted wounds - while their victims bleed-out in the parking lot.

Feel free to lecture me about my lack of human compassion - but any sympathy I might have felt for the willfully ignorant died the minute they were given a hospital bed that should have been given to someone who didn't think their "personal free-dumbs" included killing their fellow citizens.

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relayerbob

(6,544 posts)
3. They certainly need to be placed at the back of the line, at least
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 01:40 AM
Sep 2021

Someone comes in with a heart attack, un-vaxxed covidiot gets sent home

Enter stage left

(3,395 posts)
5. Let's go a step further...
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 01:48 AM
Sep 2021

The hospitals need to make this public information, repeated every hour on the hour on every news, radio, and tv station, that if you are unvacinated, you WILL BE SENT TO THE BACK OF THE LINE OVER EMERGENCY HOSPITAL CARE! No matter how serious your situation is, period!

Take responsibility for your own health. If you won't do it, why should we pay the price?

niyad

(113,235 posts)
4. Absolutely agree. Not even tents. Just go home and let your family, who are probably
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 01:48 AM
Sep 2021

also unvaccinated, deal with you. And make sure you put a notice on your door, Orin your yard, that yours is a plague house, a house of death to be avoided at all costs.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)
8. I've had to postpone two surgeries since last year. And just when I got scheduled
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 02:31 AM
Sep 2021

They tell me we can't because over the latest surge.
You betcha I'm pissed and have little to no respect for these ignorant and inconsiderate ass holes.

Hugin

(33,112 posts)
9. The same thing happened to a member of my immediate family...
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 02:51 AM
Sep 2021

Procedure postponed once and then indefinitely cancelled.

Kaleva

(36,294 posts)
10. I don't have much sympathy for adults who choose not to be vaccinated and are now dying.
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 02:57 AM
Sep 2021

I don't feel anger at them nor do I feel compassion. If they make it, that's fine. If not, then tater tots and pringles.

cadoman

(792 posts)
11. your moral compass is pointing the right direction and we'll arrive at the destination shortly
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 03:25 AM
Sep 2021

Unvaxxed will be denied access to hospitals or punished in fairly extreme ways soon. Hospitals, states, and companies already lining up the policies. Everyone shares our frustration and is prepared to act.

The beauty of it is we'll be using the free market against the freedumb loving anti-vaxxers.

All this is just a waypoint on the route to the mandates. Make sure to keep your little book of unvaxxed names up-to-date.

tiptonic

(765 posts)
12. Different hospitals
Thu Sep 23, 2021, 04:21 AM
Sep 2021

I agree 100% and to go one better, there should be two different hospitals, one for vaccinated and one for un vaccinated. The un vaccinated, should be staffed by the families of the patients. That way, they can wait for the 'laying on of hands' and for the Lord to do his work. Or they can watch, their loved ones die. I know that sounds cruel but enough is enough.

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