Jim Jones wrote:Not being vaccinated is foolish I know,
It's not just foolish, it's unethical.
There's a lot of garbage floating around Twitter, about personal choice, and the notion that people have the right to take the chance of catching Covid from either the vaxxed or the unvaxxed who can both catch it and spread it.
But the fact remains that an unvaxxed Covid ICU admission will occupy that bed, and the resources to support it, including the medical staff, for an average of weeks, rather than the more usual days. This deprives other very sick people of those resources - and as we're seeing in the USA at the moment, this is creating enormous pressure on the medical services.
It also makes it very difficult to prevent other people - some who will be immunocompromised - in the hospital from catching it from the Covid admissions.
So choosing not to get the vaccine makes it more likely that if you get Covid, you'll get it badly, end up in ICU, and thereby put pressure on resources that wouldn't be needed if your case was much milder, as is likely with a breakthrough case. To say nothing of the appalling emotional toll it takes on the medical staff.
The problem with all this libertarianism, as I've said before, is that people insist on rights without responsibilities. This trend is getting worse, and at this rate, it's not going to end well.