As a diabetic, I'm very tired of seeing diabetics compared to anti-vaxxers.

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29. Why the concern with priority?

Both shooters and their victims get medical care after a mass shooting, unless the shooter commits suicide to avoid being captured, or is killed in the process of responding to the shooting.

I am concerned about the eagerness of many posters here (not you specifically) who cheer the deaths of unvaccinated people, or who call for them to be set aside, with blankets and food, to die.

It is a scary trend in thinking. Where does it stop when society decides that some people are not worthy of medical care?

I have suggested in several posts a solution of providing separate care for ALL covid patiebts, regardless of vaccine status, that would give them the care that they need, in separate facilities, like the TB sanitoriums of the past. This would keep regular hospitals available for the general population's non covid health care.

The usual response to that suggestion has been to just let the unvaccinated die without treatment. How foolishly short-sighted. Special facilities dedicated to covid treatment could also serve as research centers for the various strains of the virus, data collection on vulnerabilities, and clinical opportunities to develop and use anti viral treatments that might even benefit victims of other viral diseases. Such centers would be able to benefit everyone, regardless of vaccine status.

I am angry, too, over the refusal of some people to take precautions like vaccines and masking. I am angry at them for spreading the disease and being hosts for it to survive, spread, and mutate. I an furious over the deaths they have caused and consider them to be murderers.

But why not get some positive benefits out of their negative behavioral effects on society? Why not use treatment of their disease to benefit others instead of arguing over priorities of care? At the same time, we would preserve our own humanitarianism by refusing to give in to the temptation to deny treatment to some factions of society.