Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/p4kcwi/we_cannot_stretch_anymore_hospital_leaders_on/
It's interesting to see r/medicine and some of the other medical subreddits start to radicalise against antivaxxers. Moral injury and secondary-exposure PTSD are already huge killers in the field. The normal moral context behind normal cases in an ER or ICU really does a number on staff, and now they've got a very strong ethical dilemma. Their sickest patients are either lemming terrorists who were fine with murdering everyone to disprove germ theory or they're the victims of those terrorists. While dying of a virus they don't believe in, those terrorists will still push their bullshit and expect sympathy from someone who has spent a year in a plague warzone watching people die.
The professional subreddits are slowly but surely beginning to turn hard against COVID deniers. Mods ban them if they post, commenters are more vocal about the situation and now understand "do no harm" with moral nuance similar to a medic's "do no harm, do know harm". As further variants and waves batter a wounded field full of wounded people who have already began striking against their hospitals, it's going to be a fascinating time to keep an eye on the medical community
It was overkill, but it got results and at least as far as I can tell it didn't have the same shock doctrine effects that our half-measures did. They kept their outbreak to a few weeks and probably saved countless lives in such a large city before treatment protocols were known. It added a positive nuance to what's otherwise portrayed as wholly negative authoritarianism. The way they had state foresight to do it and did so at the expense of their economy was very morally socialist. Information suppression was a bad call that ended up hurting more people than it helped but I have to contrast that against the CDC telling me not to wear a mask to protect against a respiratory virus.