The same happens with the flu.
People still get a flu shot every year.
And yet we have no mandates or societal or governmental pressure to take a flu shot.
That's up to the doctor, for some, yes it is.
Which only tells me that opinions and thoughts on the matter are subjective.
I think so.
An employer has a right to keep themselves, their employees, and their customers safe.
Again, all you're telling me is that they have the legal right, based on an opinion, to deny patients. The question is, is the virus
that deadly or is the shot
that effective to reasonably and logically deny healthcare to unvaxed patients or threaten to take their jobs?
Let me make something clear at this point because you don't seem to grasp where I'm coming from and you just keep repeating that they have the legal right. When I say "are they justified...", I don't mean in the legal sense, I mean are they justified
in principle.
In other words, does it make
logical sense to deny unvaxed patients given that the vaccinated can still get infected, still transmit it and still die from it?
Just like smoking, drinking or doing drugs on the job, unvaxxed people or people with covid put everyone else, at risk.
Given that vaxed can still get it, so do they.
Yes, it is, you just don't like it.
No, it's not. Your response is an answer to the question: "Can they legally deny patients...?". The answer is "Yes" and I already know this. But that is not my question.
Yes, they do.
The law backs them up, you can always go to the hospital.
Again with the law. I'm not talking about the law, I'm talking about common sense and principles.
What would you have them do?
Who said they had to DO anything?
In my fifty eight years on this spinning rock, I have come to learn that people, as a species, are stupid. I like what K (Tommy Lee Jones) said in response to J's (Will Smith) question as to why not tell the people about the aliens, people are smart.: "A
person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals."
That said, Americans are easily panicked and want the government to do something - anything - no matter how foolish, stupid or ineffective it is in the long run. The smart thing to do is to make decisions based on what you
know, not what you don't. What's worse, they
acted as if they knew what they were doing but they never did.
The last pandemic in 1918, they had lockdowns to curb the spread of the Spanish flu.
It was only 6 weeks and people freak out?
Not quite true. California's was sixty four weeks, Illinois' was ten weeks and New York's was twelve.
But none of that has anything to do with my point. My point had nothing to do with the way people reacted to the lockdown mandates but rather, the effect the lockdowns had on peoples' psyches, mental health and emotional wellbeing. In that sense, the lockdowns were a disaster.
Wonder what percent of those who flipped out, are "preppers"?
Prepared to spend years in a bunker.
What difference does it make?
What do profits have to do with skyrocketing murders, suicides and assaults?
YES, that's the way it is.
No, not every one.
They can and are.
Why?
I can think of no other reason for turning away an infected unvaxed Covid patient other than punishment.
That is up to the practitioner.
Some practitioners did the same with AIDS patients.
That doesn't answer the question and I'm not asking the practitioner anyway, I'm asking
you: Does it make sense for a doctor to turn away an unvaxed patient even if the patient is not infected and is seeking care for something else entirely?
Likely, they feel the same about, the self-righteous people that are unvaxxed.
They wouldn't be doing it otherwise.
My refusal to get the shot is not a moral imposition or judgment on anyone. A doctor's refusal to treat an unvaxed yet uninfected patient is.
No, it became political, when Trump downplayed the entire thing, his cult followed suit, just as they are now.
And Biden called Rittenhouse a white supremacist long before all the facts were generally known and before Kyle was acquitted. So what?
You just don't know how vaccines work.
Whether I do or do not, I know that it was not properly tested and my overall feeling about the release of the vaccine was that they rushed it out because people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and wanted the government to "DO SOMETHING!!".