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I could use the same rationale to say people who are fat are willingly putting others in danger. As up to 75% of C19 hospitaltizations are obese persons I could just a s easily hunt down overweights and accuse them of murder as their unhealthy habits are now clogging the medical system forcing us to shut down society to protect them.

I could call them names ,like typhoid Maries. Fat fucks. Ban them from participating in society unless they show a proper BMI index card. Force them into diet camps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BdPKpWbxTg.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6....

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32929833/.

But I would never do that. I happily spend my tax money for peole who smoke, overeat, drink and drive, get bothched breas augmentations, beat the crap of eachother, OD on heroin and all the amazing horrible things that make us humans.

Whatever choice you make in your life, you can NEVER EVER be threatened to have medical care taken away from you.

Unconditinal medical care is one of the corner stones of our society.

Red Cross workers in conflict areas will treat rape victims in one tent, and their rapist in the next.

Fun job, no. But if you cannot handle it than you should not have gone into medicine.

This tendency to normalice demands of who gets medical care and who doesnt stops now. There are not many things I will violently defend, but if society will ever hint that it is going to elect who gets medical support and who doesnt based on their personal life choices I will protest. Violenty if I have to.

This is a basic human right I am willing to die for.

I appreciate you writing this.

> This tendency to normalice demands of who gets medical care and who doesnt stops now. There are not many things I will violently defend, but if society will ever hint that it is going to elect who gets medical support and who doesnt based on their personal life choices I will protest. Violenty if I have to.

This is a basic human right I am willing to die for.

Perfectly expresses how I feel as well. Thank you.

Where am I saying to stop providing medical care? No one should go untreated, not even the dumbest, shit-spewing-est anti-vaxxer. Human life is precious.

But the idea that vaccination status is remotely comparable to weight, smoking, drug addiction – that's laughable.

It's a single goddamn shot (sorry – two shots for mRNA). You can get them fucking everywhere, for free, with a walk-in appointment.

We know they're safe. We know they keep people out of the hospital. We know that putting people in hospitals right now is a huge drain on a strained resource.

Again: people who are sick deserve care. Always. Regardless of their moronic views.

But the idea that an unvaccinated person is somehow free of the responsibility of their actions, when they could so easily fix them? I find that hard to swallow.

Just eat less and exercise more. It's free _and_ no walk-in appointment needed.

Honestly, comparing people who are fat to unvaccinated people who could change their vaccination status with a few free jabs but day after day refuse to do so is more likely to tell me you despise fat people more than anything else.

I absolutely agree that no one should ever be threatened to have medical care taken away from them! That is precisely why I'm ok with villifying (note that I'm not saying "calling them names" or "refuse treatment") the unvaccinated, as that is precisely what they are doing! And no, this is absolutely not comparable to anything else: there has been no sudden explosion in the last two years of obesity or drunk driving or smoking to the point that there are no hospital beds for anyone else. Only covid has done that.

I would say that the obese in particular deserve to vilified far more than antivaxxes, because they are doing damage year after year. An estimate 20% of US healthcare costs (~200B/yr) are related adult obesity. Think of how many lives could be saved with that money. These people are essentially murderers based on the externalities they impose on the rest of us.

Hospital Costs and deaths associated with covid are easily surpassed by the obese if you add up just a few years.

https://www.healthycommunitieshealthyfuture.org/learn-the-fa...

> Unconditinal medical care is one of the corner stones of our society.

Are you British or something?

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