Yes.

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Texas doesn’t have statewide guidelines for critical care and triage, which means that caregivers are left to their own local organizing. But tough times like the ones brought on by low vaccination rates and the delta variant require a re-examination of priors. This fourth wave of Covid hospitalizations differs from all the others, because almost everyone who is severely ill is also unvaccinated. In Texas, more than 12,800 people are in the hospital because of Covid-19, and between 93 and 98 percent of them are unvaccinated.

It’s tempting to blame this wave not on the virus but on the people who didn’t get their shots. “This has been bubbling up—this anger, this frustration, this fear, this worry. Every day, we’re seeing the ascent of the curve. Now it’s the steepest it’s ever been,” Fine says. “So I and the other leaders of the task force, we decided, you know, these numbers are not looking good. These questions are coming up."

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    If you're doing triage it can make sense because vaccinated people have a better chance of surviving and resources are better spent there. In the same way that younger people would receive treatment first under triage.

    From a culpability point though, this is dangerous territory. Like in a shootout, you treat the people regardless of who shot who, who was the theif, etc. In the same way you should treat people regardless of weather they got the vaccine.

    So long as it's done strictly from a triage point of view, and not a personal responsibility thing, it makes sense.

    • Vncredleader
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      3 years ago

      The readiness of the media to debate this matter is in and of itself indicative of them preparing us to be ok with letting people die. I think it is acceptable from a purely triage POV, but that's not what is going to be the takeaway, the takeaway is going to be that we can enlightenly tell ourselves some people for personal responsibility reasons, deserve to die more often than others.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah self indulgent libs will see it that way. They're trying to find an "easy" way out. This entire scenario is a result of decades of systemic neglect, and can't be undone quickly. Mandating the vaccine might cause some chuds to bomb buildings or something, so they're trying to push American personal responsibility nonsense against the chuds and use it against them. I don't think it will work.