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lapfog_1

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16. Lets take the analogy you propose a little bit further
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 09:26 AM
Dec 2021

is there a set of people who NEED a liver transplant, haven't taken a drink in their life, and are denied because the alcoholics have taken all the available livers?

We only have so many ICU beds and doctors and nurses to staff them... Omicron, from all indications, is going to sweep the nation in the next month or so... and unvaccinated are going to fill the ICUs (and, possibly some of the vaccinated but not boosted)

Will we turn away the heart attack patient, the accident victim, the seriously ill from other disease BECAUSE we have a group of idiots, who despite being told for 2 years about Covid AND for a year about the availability of a vaccine, decided that the internet knows better, that the virus is a hoax, and that the vaccines are a liberal plot to kill off the human race, blah, blah, blah...

Yes I have compassion for the idiots... but I also have compassion for the rest of us... and we are going to be in the situation where difficult choices will have to be made. Sarah Palin's "death panels" are here. I would choose to save the vaccinated.

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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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