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Limiting healthcare based on having been jabbed is dangerous. Once you start basing triage during crises on who should get what help when, the next step after things get back to normal is to look at smokers, people with alcohol problems, etc
Our healthcare is based around everyone getting access, and the other people sucking up the disproportionate costs associated with when people make life 'choices'.
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Our healthcare is based around everyone getting access
If, on the other hand, you simply don't have enough resources for everyone you may well have to triage based on likely outcome. And people who have been vaccinated are likely to have a better outcome, even if they do require hospitalisation.
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Limiting healthcare based on having been jabbed is dangerous. Once you start basing the triage on who should get what help when, the next step is then to look at smokers, people with alcohol problems, etc
Good points
Brommers
Stonehedge
I agree wholeheartedly with you, but we might be in a position where healthcare is not for all, like we had in the first wave.
A good example is my neighbour, Anne, who had severe Covid in the first wave (and has COPD), ox sats went down to 70% but couldn't get admitted to hospital because not enough beds. She was told that she was unlikely to survive and that she should prepare to die at home. She gathered her kids round and drifted off for 72 hours. As it happens, she somehow pulled through (after eventually being admitted and spending some time in a coma. )
I feel for people like Anne.
(heavily abridged story btw, lots of nuance lost there, but the headline of the story is representative).