| Ooloo |
12-17-2021 02:24 PM |
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Originally Posted by Whale biologist
(Post 3400264)
No sympathy for the healthcare logistics argument?
Some number, likely a small number, of healthy-presenting individuals will end up severely sick and hospitalized if they don't vaxx, straining critical care units that already operate at near capacity under normal circumstances. This endangers not just themselves but the at-risk vaxxed.
Who should get the bed? Refusing to choose is a choice.
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Well you can speculate about hypotheticals all day. Some number, albeit small, of otherwise healthy-presenting people will get seriously ill as a direct result of the vax. Those people will need to be hospitalized too, and may have only gotten mildly ill from covid itself.
A big problem is that the data is all so young, it's hard to draw any completely concrete conclusions. The initial fears about hospitals being wildly overrun turned out to largely be a false alarm, and that was with the original strain which was, by all accounts, much more likely to result in hospitalization.
So no, for healthy people I think that on balance it doesn't make sense to get vaxed, at least until we have more information. |
