🚨I've had a frankly worrying number of messages from people who think the answer to the hospital crisis is simple: deny care to unvaccinated people. I talked to ethicists and health-care workers about why this is a terrible, unconscionable idea. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
I've given the sentiment a fair hearing, and the people I spoke to sympathized with the exasperation and fear behind it. But they also said it was immoral, illogical, unfeasible, and completely against the tenets of medical ethics. 2/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
The principle is really simple: "Everyone has an equal claim to relief from suffering, no matter what they’ve done or haven’t done." The medical system shouldn't be a means of punishing people for social choices. 3/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
@edyong209 You owe nothing to a person who constantly endangers the lives of others, knowing others may very well die as a result of their behavior and are perfectly okay with that outcome. By giving attention to that person, you are, indeed, doing harm.
@edyong209 Did you ask them what were the ethics behind denying people medical care because they can’t afford it? Or what about ppl dying because they can’t get care because of the unvaccinated?
@edyong209 Besides that, if the vaccines were as good as originally advertised you would have no need to worry about catching Covid from unvaxxed people as long as YOU were vaxxed....But, as it turns out you can get it if you are triple vaxxed! 😣