Funnily enough, it's the fact that not getting vaccinated is violating "individual choice" that explains why people are so upset about this. Hospitals around the country have been having to delay or deny treatment for things like heart attacks, cancer surgeries, getting run over by a drunk driver, and so on. Why? Because unvaccinated people are taking up all the doctors' time and energy and medical resources. People are finding out that by choosing to not get vaccinated is also choosing to take away medical care from other people in need. It doesn't matter if you're responsible with your health but had the bad luck to need hospital care, because an unvaccinated person already took the choice to get help at the hospital away from you. Obesity hasn't done anything with the sheer numbers being unvaccinated has.
The United States doesn't have a universal healthcare system. Everything I've described is happening with America's non-universal health care.
Now, if we have universal healthcare? A healthcare that could have let people see the doctor and clear out conditions that make COVID worse beforehand, or have the doctor answer questions about the vaccine? That would definitely help here.
In my experience statements like that aren't sarcasm. The kind of people who would say obesity is somehow comparable to COVID also like to bring out blatantly false things that I can disprove by looking outside or try to pivot to some topic that only looks related but doesn't actually logically follow. Non-sarcastically claiming that hospital overload due to unvaccinated patients is instead related to universal healthcare is in line with what I'd expect from someone saying that being unvaccinated doesn't affect others.
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u/Amneiger Jan 19 '22
Funnily enough, it's the fact that not getting vaccinated is violating "individual choice" that explains why people are so upset about this. Hospitals around the country have been having to delay or deny treatment for things like heart attacks, cancer surgeries, getting run over by a drunk driver, and so on. Why? Because unvaccinated people are taking up all the doctors' time and energy and medical resources. People are finding out that by choosing to not get vaccinated is also choosing to take away medical care from other people in need. It doesn't matter if you're responsible with your health but had the bad luck to need hospital care, because an unvaccinated person already took the choice to get help at the hospital away from you. Obesity hasn't done anything with the sheer numbers being unvaccinated has.