yet another right-wing frame: anti-vax, "freedom" not to get vaccinated, to control their own body

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14. I mean I don't want hospital personnel deciding who "deserves" treatment and who doesn't

Triage based on medical need and medical capacity and likely medical outcomes, sure.

But I do not want to open the door to hospitals deciding that certain people should be denied treatment based on some notion of merit.

Do they turn away a Covid victim in order to keep an empty bed? What if a heart attack victim never shows up and they just killed a Covid patient who might have survived. Or they gave the bed to a heart attack victim who was even more of a hopeless case? Or as long as we're caring about merit, what if the heart attack victim got his heart attack from the police tasing him after he killed 57 people. Should the doctors debate over which one is the bigger *sshole? Oh and what if it turns out the police tased the wrong guy?

And then there's always the "good old days" where some hospitals refused to treat blacks people....


Maybe it's in my dna, maybe it's my emt training ages ago, but I think medical people should treat all patients, period, and not get into who deserves it and who doesn't.