As a diabetic, I'm very tired of seeing diabetics compared to anti-vaxxers.

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53. If allocating medical resources to achieve the best survival rate

is the standard, then many facilities may already be violating or on the verge of violating that principle.

The statistics, last I saw them, seemed to indicate that once someone with Covid and not vaccinated had been on a ventilator for more than a couple of weeks their chance of survival was practically nill.

Yet we're already seeing people suffering with heart attacks and strokes--whose chances for survival are fair to excellent with prompt treatment--having their treatment delayed on account of non-vaccinated Covid patients taking up all available ER slots and ICU beds. I've seen statements from public health officials in states like Arkansas saying that people in car accidents or other medical emergencies requiring intensive care may have to be driven or flown out of state because all the available beds in that state are now filled, with a very significant number of those beds occupied by non-vaccinated Covid patients.

Right now the guiding principle seems to be: first come, first served, regardless of the severity or survivability of those needing care subsequent to whichever Covid patients have arrived minutes or hours or days before. This is in a sense understandable, but if the situation deteriorates (as I'm almost certain it will) the numbers of non-Covid patients forced to delay needed treatment or suffering life altering disability or even death because of the lack of medical resources in certain localities will rise to the point where the anger we're already seeing will also rise.

It's long past time we stopped placating the most ignorant and narcissistic and deluded among us. Right now I think the only way to forestall an even more tragic situation is mandatory vaccination for anyone not medically unable to tolerate the shots. This should have happened as soon as the vaccines became available, but our politics prevented it.

As for future pandemics, hopefully these won't occur in the context of an administration as incompetent, as corrupt, and as immoral as what we saw prior to January 20th. Had the initial response followed the guidelines laid down by the Obama administration and the genuine public health authorities I think the situation today would be vastly different.