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Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified by breischl on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:39AM (#29296945)
> From where I'm sitting in Montana, with no mandates, low vaccine uptake, and nobody giving a crap about the "OMG CASES THE CASES", the firmament remains.

You should check out places like Alaska, where the hospitals are (or were a couple weeks ago, anyway) overwhelmed. Even aside from the people directly affected by COVID, it affects anyone else who may have needed to use those hospitals for things like unrelated accidents, other diseases, complications from births, etc.

"It's not a problem right here, right now, so therefore it's not a problem at all anywhere." is not exactly a great argument.

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Re:Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified by tzs on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:57AM (#29297110)
No need for him to check out Alaska. That also happened recently in his state of Montana. If he finds that not to be a cause for concern I doubt he will find Alaska's mismanagement of COVID persuasive.

(And it was mostly not elderly people filling the ICUs. The average age of COVID patients in Montana ICUs was under 50. Before delta it was 80).

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