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Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
6. Yes but
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 05:48 AM
Dec 2021

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Liberals would not refuse treatment, but two points:

1) People willfully avoiding proven safe common sense actions should pay for their treatment up to their ability (which might be zero). Insurance companies should require higher rates. If it bankrupts the avoider, well then they get a lesson in personal responsibility, which is what they are supposedly all about (the flip side of liberty).

2) The underlying condition is untreatable (stupidity). It's actually a co-morbidity. There are sometimes deathbed cures of this underlying condition.

Note re 1: The vaccines are safe, as proven by hundreds of millions of jabs, the VAERS self-reporting database notwithstanding: "VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning it relies on individuals to send in reports of their experiences to CDC and FDA. VAERS is not designed to determine if a vaccine caused a health problem".

Note re 2: Believing that within six months (perpetual withing six months) hundreds of millions of people will begin dying in a Great Reset depopulation plan is a strong symptom of the underlying condition, but is not an excuse for #1.



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Besides what would be the ethical cut off? LiberatedUSA Dec 2021 #1
Mickey Mantle for one. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2021 #2
Yes, he got a liver transplant. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #4
David Crosby no_hypocrisy Dec 2021 #5
And Larry Hagman. nt BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #11
Mickey Mantle also had cancer which was advanced DFW Dec 2021 #7
Every time I think about him and his transplant, I think about Erma Bombeck, and how niyad Dec 2021 #22
I was amazed that Dick Cheney: DENVERPOPS Dec 2021 #9
A few others off the top of my head... FarPoint Dec 2021 #13
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this! ShazzieB Dec 2021 #3
Yes but Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #6
+1 ProfessorGAC Dec 2021 #25
They ask for addicts/alcoholics to be clean/sober for janterry Dec 2021 #8
Interesting summary and great points. Thanks. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #26
K and r. BlackSkimmer Dec 2021 #10
THANK YOU ❤️ 👍 Raine Dec 2021 #12
My dentist was an alcoholic. piddyprints Dec 2021 #14
I know of 2 liver transplant cases, gab13by13 Dec 2021 #15
Lets take the analogy you propose a little bit further lapfog_1 Dec 2021 #16
Since you are evidently reacting to the discussion I started, let me clarify milestogo Dec 2021 #17
We are nowhere close to exhausting our resources. Bucky Dec 2021 #24
"Don't become what you despise." Talitha Dec 2021 #18
yes Skittles Dec 2021 #20
I basically agree but I hate Elessar Zappa Dec 2021 #19
I agree ENTIRELY. KentuckyWoman Dec 2021 #21
ha ha ha! Thank you for that! Bucky Dec 2021 #23
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