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ShazzieB

(18,704 posts)
24. It's really not that simple.
Sat Dec 18, 2021, 08:39 PM
Dec 2021

I've seen so many posts like this, and while I fully understand why people feel this way, I find these posts disturbing.

Health care professionals have a code of ethics that underlies decisions about the allocation of care, for covid or anything else. I don't think it's appropriate for those of us outside that field to make pronouncements that they should start doing things that violate that code (such as having different standards of care based solely on vaccination status), even in jest.

Health care workers need all the support we can give them right now, and imo, saying that they should flush their professional ethics down the toilet when dealing with covid patients is neither supportive nor helpful.

I realize this may not be a popular stance right now, but all this talk of denying care to a specific group is highly problematic, imo, no matter who that group consists of.

People are gonna do what they're gonna do bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #1
I'm right with ya, bucolic, no sympathy for them here.. Permanut Dec 2021 #5
hear what you're saying, but stopdiggin Dec 2021 #12
That's a shame.... Blue Owl Dec 2021 #2
Do not use hospital bed space on these idiots. Botany Dec 2021 #3
It's really not that simple. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #24
Tell me about the ethics where a large local hospital in Columbus, OH has told one of their .... Botany Dec 2021 #27
Also the Covid patients and families are attacking health care workers. Irish_Dem Dec 2021 #28
K&R! SheltieLover Dec 2021 #4
"Death by Politics" is Cha Dec 2021 #6
So sick. Does Fox News not want viewers? Or are viewers just an applegrove Dec 2021 #7
Do Republicans not DENVERPOPS Dec 2021 #10
You may have hit on exactly why........ KS Toronado Dec 2021 #11
They are willing to accept a 1% loss in viewership... TheRealNorth Dec 2021 #26
Correlates strongly negative with vaccination rates, I'd wager. paleotn Dec 2021 #8
Note the complete inversion from the relative death rates Ms. Toad Dec 2021 #9
And sadly, they're killing Democrats & other vaxxers with them. NullTuples Dec 2021 #13
I just returned to my republican county mountain grammy Dec 2021 #14
Instant Karma OrangeJoe Dec 2021 #15
I Didn't Realize He'd Died COL Mustard Dec 2021 #25
Freedom isn't free IronLionZion Dec 2021 #16
No sympathy here. Kablooie Dec 2021 #17
I sympathize with the folk who have to take care of them Skittles Dec 2021 #18
Must be the rapture coming for the true believers LiberalArkie Dec 2021 #19
Yes! and their own special, personal Apocalypse for an appetizer. n/t TeamProg Dec 2021 #22
I never used to believe in people actually having death wishes. I do now. BigBearJohn Dec 2021 #20
A LOT of people resisted SEAT BELTS, too! And it's still not a complete, 100% of auto occupants, TeamProg Dec 2021 #21
Not tragic at all. Glaisne Dec 2021 #23
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