Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by enkid on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:54AM
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Even more sharply, should the willfully unvaccinated take priority over lower priority but less life threatening diseases? If someone has the flu, and it looks like they'll make it, but the doctor wants them in the hospital just in case, should they get the bed over the unvaccinated person who is going to die without it?
Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by fartingflamingo on Friday September 10, 2021 @11:28AM
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That sounds like something different where the answer is not so clear-cut.
I've tried to rephrase the wording of the ethical dilemma I came up with to make it more neutral:
Imagine there's two covid patients coming into hospital at the same time: one vaccinated, one not. Both are in need of the same care, with the same urgency. Only one hospital bed is available. Which, if any, of these patients should receive priority in treatment?
Hospital capacity being limited, should ill vaccine refusers be getting priority as they are getting right now?
What if you get super unlucky, and you get contaminated and severely ill despite vaccination? Will they kick an unvaccinated covid patient from the one respirator?