Nubo
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dmacarthur said:I spoke with a friend who is a doctor and asked him when it is acceptable to stop providing medical care to someone based on their having refused to use the vaccine, the first line of defense. Maybe there will come a time when all other medical needs get addressed at local hospitals before un-vaxxed COVID patients get attention- seems logical to me. People who do not make the choice to need critical care should get it before people who choose to need it.
Triage is a fact of life for medical personnel, when there is extreme calamity and limited resources simply can't be expended on those whose chance of survival is very low. If a Covid situation gets bad enough, the portion of patients sent away could very well be predominantly non-vaccinated as those are the ones most likely to be in extremis. It's a medical necessity to save those who can be saved, not an ideological decision.
But as an overall policy outside of catastrophic triage, then no I would not support a discriminatory policy that places non-vaccinated at the end of the line. That's an ideological stunt that would only serve to widen social divisions. Though I fully understand the dividing line isn't always clear.