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Jesse Powell
@jespow
Assuming all patients are paying market rate for care, of course the hospital would serve them. Laws requiring seat belts and helmets assume externalized costs to be absorbed by society. If society is paying, it should be able to reject bills resulting from extreme recklessness.
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George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
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The willfully unvaccinated who wind up in hospitals from Covid should not receive priority medical care over other very sick or injured people who are as much in urgent need of medical care.
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moonlitmonkey.eth 🐶⚡
@MoonlitMonkey69
The implicit assumption that the vaccine will remain effective to new variants is interesting. When given heard immunity seems basically impossible now, actually seems quite unlikely.
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Jesse Powell
@jespow
Yeah, I don’t agree with that assumption. My point is that hospitals should be able to just say to the skydiver conference that’s coming to town: “you will be seen last. act according to your own risk tolerance.”
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moonlitmonkey.eth 🐶⚡
@MoonlitMonkey69
Seems like that could get into some very subjective territory that would more than likely slow down efficiency. Like if you got someone dying, who has time to check their twitter feed, or do a deep dive on their personal history and measure that against some other person.
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moonlitmonkey.eth 🐶⚡
@MoonlitMonkey69
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@jespow
Maybe it's just me, but where I am, hospitals never really have to make life or death decisions based on number of beds left. They somehow seem to manage (albiet being effecient with those who are not in an emergency state). Public health system tho. Is this a real problem?
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