Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by tzs on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:26PM
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In a society in which if you do something stupid that causes massive but not immediately fatal injuries to yourself you will be taken to an emergency room and likely given expensive treatment even if you do not have adequate insurance or enough money of your own to pay for that treatment, thereby passing the cost on to the rest of us in terms of either higher medical costs or higher taxes, it is a lot harder for it to be just about hurting yourself.
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Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by angelzen on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:49PM
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See e.g. obesity crisis. Or medicalized end-of-life costs. Sadly, we pay for expensive stuff people do to their health all the time.
Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by pell on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:56AM
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Obesity is in itself a sickness in many cases. I think the implication that people "do it to themselves" really ignores the large pile of evidence that shows that it's really difficult to treat it effectively. Similarly other examples such as alcoholism or other substance addiction suffer from the same issue.
When it comes to vaccine hesitation I am not sure where to draw the line. It's a very emotional topic apparently and it seems rational arguments only go so far.
That said, I think if a society only treats those medical emergencies deemed to have a "non-egoistical" cause Pandora's box will come to haunt us sooner or later. We should save humans whenever we can. That's just the cost of doing business so to speak.