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Showing Original Post only (View all)As a diabetic, I'm very tired of seeing diabetics compared to anti-vaxxers. [View all]
My disease is not communicable.My disease does not represent a threat to anyone but me.
There is no vaccine for diabetes. You can damn sure bet I would have taken one.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and has nothing to do with anyone's lifestyle.
Type 2 diabetes can occur in people with healthy lifestyles.
When you compare me to an anti-vaxxer and say that if they're not treated, I shouldn't be treated, you are insulting and degrading me, and everyone on this board who has diabetes. We don't deserve this.
Please don't hold alcoholics up as an example, either. There are people who are predisposed to alcoholism who have no idea they are until they take that first drink, and then it's too late. If you've ever had a drink, and you're not an alcoholic, the only thing separating you from them is luck. They don't deserve to be compared to anti-vaxxers, either.
Do you think that anti-vaxxers deserve medical treatment, or any other benefit of society? Just say that you are just fine with a complete lack of consequences for their carelessness, irresponsibility, and complete unconcern for others. Don't drag any other groups LIKE MINE into it.
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As a diabetic, I'm very tired of seeing diabetics compared to anti-vaxxers. [View all]
GaYellowDawg
Sep 2021
OP
They are ZOMBIES! They are Toxic. They can spread their disease. They want to eat your brain.
Ford_Prefect
Sep 2021
#3
Antivaxxers will say that if antivaxxers shouldn't be treated for Covid at hospitals
pnwmom
Sep 2021
#14
Some posters on DU are drawing false equivalencies between unvaxxed patients and diabetic patients.
Crunchy Frog
Sep 2021
#18
I haven't seen it and I sincerely hope that nobody but DU jurors got to see it
TexasTowelie
Sep 2021
#26
I have. They say people with diabetes and certain other conditions are more likely
pnwmom
Sep 2021
#15
Nor have I, certianly not in the way a few on this thread are claiming (with no evidence).
Celerity
Sep 2021
#20
This is all about a single post in another thread? You are making a whole new thread about it
Scrivener7
Sep 2021
#40
The general question is "should people who engage in self destructive behaviors receive treatment"?
Klaralven
Sep 2021
#43
The moral principle of triage is to allocate medical resources to achieve the best survival rate
Klaralven
Sep 2021
#49