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> What's clear is that COVID-19 isn't going away any time soon.

This isn’t new information. It was obvious all the way back in March of 2020 that covid was here forever.

Life must go on. We cannot live with this myopic fixation on exactly one specific form of illnesses. These “experts” have already asked enough out if people. We’ve been asked to put our lives on hold for more than 1.7 years now.

Dragging any of this on after the first vaccines came out was unethical as hell. Vaccines were it. There is nothing else we can do besides attempt to build some myopic hellscape where our entire existence is centered around stopping the spread of covid.

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Well we can get everyone vaccinated so we quit filling the hospitals with unvaxxed patients.

Hospitals have had more than enough time to prepare for this. If they fill up, that’s on them and the government. Society shouldn’t be punished for that.

I hate being blunt on HN, but this is a stupid take.

If everyone that could take the vaccine did take the vaccine then the hospitals wouldn't have filled up. Instead the vaccine has become a political IQ test that is ravaging particular demographics based on the amount of disinformation they consume.

"Society" isn't being punished, anti-vaxxers are, mostly. Hospitals aren't going to double/triple the size of their ICUs and number of vents/ecmo machines, they are going to triage. Even if did double the beds, you don't double the number of people trained well for these complex procedures in a year.

If they fill up—I mean, when they fill up, that's on my mom, who has to wait for a follow-up surgery because the hospital doesn't have the capacity to take care of her.

I agree that there are better ways to run our healthcare system, but we also have to contend with the facts right now as they are. Perhaps the people being punished most right now are the ones who are in pain, at home, and who can't get medical care because the hospitals don't have capacity to deal with it because they're filled up with COVID-19 cases.

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