Why do people who choose not to get vaccinated go to the hospital when they get sick?

[kpete]

[obamanut2012]

1. With Jenny McCarthy and RFK Jr. as head doctors

[Haggard Celine]

2. Excellent point

If they think so highly of those religious nuts out there, let them go to a faith-healing service.

[Earth-shine]

3. Because that's when the reality of COVID sets in.

When sh*t gets real, that's when they start trusting doctors.

Some of them deny COVID is real.

Some of them know it's real and are scared of it, but can't admit it because of tribalism.

Some of them get vaxxed in secret.

Some of them hate the libs so much that they will risk the lives of their families, and not allow them to be vaxxed.

[Probatim]

21. How many of them go to the hospital and deny they have COVID?

My guess is it's a decent percentage. It's only when they're shitting their gowns from coughing so hard or as the doctor intubates them that the light goes on.

[Earth-shine]

23. There are certainly cases of very ill people arguing with the doctors that it's not COVID.

There are videos of dying people insisting to the doctor it must be something else.

Frankly, when I was growing up, I never thought of global pandemic as the cause of the end of the world.

But, those wildfires, that feels familiar.

If it has to end, my money was on global warming, but I was kinda, secretly hoping for alien invasion.

[Probatim]

26. I'm with you on global warming - we're past fucking around and have moved into finding out.

When the skies in the East were filled with smoke from West Coast fires it was proof that we're all going to get it from Mother Nature.

[lame54]

28. Until they are feeling better...

Then it's right back to Fox News

[TheBlackAdder]

4. Because the "People who don't want to pay for others" wants to saddle others with their $1M care.

[marble falls]

9. You opened the next discussion: "Explain the $75 aspirin, Doctor."

[dalton99a]

5. And hospitals use needles

Scary needles, big and small

[FM123]

6. They are just crazy stupid.

The only thing that is even worse are all the healthcare workers who should know better that won't get vaccinated, I think that of last week there are still one in four un-vaxxed....

[GoodRaisin]

22. It's like they suddenly unlearned everything they were taught in medical training

when they joined the red cult.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. Denial is not a river in Egypt...

[SergeStorms]

32. And they all forgot....

their towels. Either that, or didn't believe they'd ever need their towels.

Vogons put microchips in those towels you know.

[marble falls]

8. And the deathbed conversion to vaccine. I had to go to the ER last night, I "had a spell" ...

The Baylor-Scott and White hospital had all their Covid beds filled. The parking lot was full, and I was feeling much better, but the wife says, "we're going in."

I explained my problem with the admittance person and was told to sit down, and they sent my wife out.

There weren't more than a handful of people in the waiting room. After and hour and a half of nobody being called back, I went to the desk and got told it was an 8-9 hr wait just to be triaged. I called the wife and I went home.

Today I feel right as rain, but I am pissed off with Gov Abbott, Sens Cornyn and Cruz, Rep Williams and whatever Gopper replaced my state Rep, Troy about four elections ago. I'm pissed off that I might have gotten sick being too close to someone that had lied to me about whether he'd been vaxxed or not. I'm pissed off about everyone who doesn't believe in science until they show up at an ER unvaxxed. Making me to have to show up in an ER with them.

I'm fed up. A year and a half of being careful, pffft in a couple of days.

[TxGuitar]

27. Honestly, I really believe if a person shows up at a hospital

with COVID symptoms, the first question they should be asked is "are you vaccinated?". If the answer is no, they should be sent home with then number of a nearby mortuary to call when they die.

[marble falls]

31. I'm resisting going that far, but I am rapidly losing my famous patience with nitwits.

[luv2fly]

10. Because they are scared

And going to the grocery store or Home Depot really won't help.

[Thunderbeast]

11. I repeat my theory...

IT IS THE DAMN NEEDLE!

Many of these folks rationalize why they refuse the jab. They are terrified of rolling up their sleeve and feeling the pinch.

If the vaccine were given as a pill, half of the resisters would get it in a heartbeat.

[Walleye]

13. I really think you're onto something there

They shouldn’t show so many pictures of needles going into arms on TV news etc. It makes me cringe, and I’m not afraid of them. I’ve gotten many shots that don’t hurt at all.

[Earth-shine]

24. I got two Moderna shots and didn't even feel the thing when it happened. nt

[Walleye]

30. Me too. If you don't look you don't feel a thing

[Texaswitchy]

40. Same here.

Felt nothing.

[3catwoman3]

29. It would be interesting to correlate vaccine refusal with...

…whether or not someone has tattoos.

If you’ve got tats or piercings, don’t whine about needles.

When kids at the pediatric office would freak out about immunizations of finger sticks, I would try to use a little gentle humor and say, “Well, I guess your folks don’t have to worry about you getting tattoos.” Many would say, “No way!”

[IronLionZion]

12. The dumbest ones are self medicating at home

with snake oil type stuff they bought without a prescription from sketchy online sellers.

The worst cases are when children are being given poison from dumbass parents. A few too many have died from this already.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. They go because they feel guilt at their negligence and shame at their stupidity

It's more than a bit like going to church for them.

[Chainfire]

15. They simply refuse to link their careless behavior with their illness.

Some of them don't even make the connection just prior to being intubated. It is the result of decades of propaganda damning science.

[Tommymac]

16. It's the result of millennia of con people taking advantage of religious faith.

Fake preachers and priests and shamans. All in for the greed and taking advantage of the ignorant.

That's all.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. don't forget 35 years of hate radio 24/7; pure propoganda.

[Chainfire]

20. You are right, Donald Trump did not invent the big lie, but he worked to perfect it.

The right wing "press" laid the groundwork of gullibility for the loser in chief.

[pandr32]

33. Yes--they were properly primed

[calimary]

36. BINGO. We have a winner!

Used to be it was “your weird uncle mumbling in the attic.” Now it’s glitzy TV shows with dramatic music and bell-ringing sounds and fancy blonde women with lots of glamour-girl make-up, and well-coiffed men in expensive suits and an announcer repeating the “FAIR and BALANCED!!!” messaging.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. Yeah. T&A candy for the old white racists, making them feel "informed" and hip

[calimary]

41. And totally reinforced in the cockeyed worldview of these (mainly) middle-aged and old white men.

Hmmm... the word "cockeyed" takes on a whole new meaning here...

[Evolve Dammit]

43. Still incurably sexist, just can't do much about it. Another thing to be angry about. And needing a

new "hip"!

[XanaDUer2]

18. Fear nt

[Doodley]

19. Why do they allow doctors to treat them who are wearing masks?

[Meowmee]

25. Stupid tweet

Wait until you are very ill and have trouble breathing etc. most will head to a hospital at some point. Often it is too late by the time an ambulance is called etc.

[NCjack]

34. They go to the hospital to get a second opinion -- they do not have covid-19

and even if they did, they could beat it just by listening to RW talk radio and their RWNJ pastors.

[LisaL]

35. Because horse anti-parasite paste doesn't really work?

NT

[Evolve Dammit]

44. Man. I just bought three cases....

[Walleye]

37. Just heard one moron on the news say it was all made up by Fauci

He said we can rely on our “natural immunity”. Did these people not get immunizations as children? I don’t understand it.

[Marcuse]

38. "It's just the flu, you damn lib quacks!"

[Iggo]

42. Because they're sick and it's the right thing to do.

DU is changing, man.

Kinda gross.

[Caliman73]

45. Same reason that Americans who eat the typical American diet go to the hospital with a heart attack.

There are different mechanisms at play. We tend to think that we will buck the odds. That the science is flexible (and it can be). We tend to hope (to the point of magical thinking). Then when we get sick or injured, we seek help.

It isn't that doctors are lying. Anti-vaxxers think that the government or some nebulous authority is lying. That BIG PHARMA is lying. Remember that people in the liberal camp have also had our problems with pharmaceutical companies pushing products.

Memes are fun for a laugh, but they tend to boil complex situations down to simplistic, often incomplete terms.

[kairos12]

46. Send them to the Megachurches. Let them treat them with casseroles.

[lindysalsagal]

47. Same with cars, phones, TV, internet. All science.

You don't like vaccines? Go join the Amish on the farm and leave all that evil science behind

[msfiddlestix]

48. Oh hell, that was a question I asked my trump cult sister

back in 2016... in reference to the ACA (Obama Care)


Death camps and the rest, rather go to emergency to get treated for anything that comes up than sign up for health care, and be covered.

I pulled my hair out of my head (almost) when we were having this chat. That gesture hurt her feelings, but I just couldn't help myself.

I really have NO TOLERANCE for the STUPID.

Nor do I want to. Not ever.