So many people whining about what others do, or don’t do, drove me to write this piece. As if all the complaining was going to change anything. Once a catholic, always a catholic. Same goes for all the other religions. There are exceptions, of course, but let’s face it, people have their minds made up, for the most part, and all the pleading and bellyaching in the world isn’t going to change a thing.
When was the last time you talked to someone and convinced that person of something, anything, other than what they already thought? The problem, I think, is that these days there are no serious consequences, at least not like there used to be. Galileo, for instance, had to change his mind about the solar system, even though he knew he was right, and no wonder, as he was going to be burned at the stake otherwise. Now there is a consequence.
Some people think the world is 6000 years old, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, or that the earth is flat, but those are safe bets as there are no consequences for believing that. We don’t punish or ridicule knaves any more, like we used to, and the fact that the world is full of them is proof of that.
Yet, who knows if vaccination in the case of Covid is the right thing? I think it is, but what does that mean? I’m no microbiologist, and even if I were, so what? I could still be wrong. In fact, it might have been better to let the disease run its course, take the weak ones, make the other ones stronger and so it goes. Funeral parlors might have made more money, drug companies less, and that’s the way it’s always been since time started ticking. In the end, I’m not advocating anything, I’m just saying that there is room for doubt, there always is. Below is the link to the article.
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Link to the article at the DRC. Taking things to their natural conclusion.
And for those that prefer not to wade through the swamp-full of more ads than adders in the DRC web site, I include the entire article below.
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Taking things to their logical conclusion.
I have read a lot of red-hot opinions lately that seem to have one thing in common, other than to let us know the writer is on the warpath. They are advocating for the denial of medical services to people that end up in intensive care with Covid and have not been vaccinated. They argue that by not taking the shots, these people are needlessly monopolizing up the bed space to the point that sometimes there is no room for the do-gooders, the compliant ones, the people with real world problems like diabetes, stroke, or accidents, and ones that have been properly vaccinated.
That got me to thinking, not a small feat in itself. What about the person that drives a motorcycle without a helmet? That’s got to be the best way to meet a trauma nurse that I know of, yet nobody has mentioned them. Helmets after all, are a choice, same as getting your shots is a choice. And what about the smokers. We’ve known that smoking is hazardous to one’s health for years now, yet a lot of people choose to smoke, and a lot more seem to be smoking e-cigarettes, if that’s what those are, and yet we let them come into a hospital with cancer or pulmonary disease and they can have access to all the treatments our medical services can provide, with nobody getting bent out of shape. Then there are the ones that are overweight. What about those? There is a whole catalog full of medical problems that go hand in hand with excess weight, and yet no one has suggested sending these folks rolling into a dark basement so they can slenderize together.
I remember my dad once saying once that if he were emperor of this country – he could not be president as he wasn’t born here ‒ he would immediately outlaw sugar. To him sugar was the worst product we consume, as a nation, and hospitals were full of those suffering the consequences. He saw these consequences everyday as he did his hospital rounds: obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, cancers, low quality of life, to name a few. The list of related ailments because of any one of these, what one might call collateral damage, is even longer. Diabetes, for example, is not self-contained, it spreads out into different areas of the human body, and can trigger heart disease, including stroke, foot problems, eye problems, kidney disease, nerve damage, and so forth. His street smarts estimate was that we could free up 75% of all the hospital beds by doing away with sugar, especially white sugar. At the time, I was sad to know that cinnamon rolls were high on his list.
In the end, what we’re talking about here are life choices. I don’t see any difference between a person deciding not to get the vaccine and another person choosing to keep the Coke habit, even knowing they are being treated as borderline diabetic. And I know several of these.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating for the anti-vaxxers, and I do have my shots, I just think that people that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. If you’re overweight, drink Cokes, eat chips and smoke, don’t talk about how terrible your neighbor is because he won’t get his shots since you’re worried that sooner or later he might be using the very hospital bed you will surely need, sooner than later.
The logical conclusion of suggesting that certain
behaviors be punished, in this case by withholding medical services, is that it
requires a judgement call. And who among us is qualified to do that? And why only
anti-vaxxers? Let’s not discriminate. As long as we’re making a list, we might
as well add smokers, drinkers, druggies, couch potatoes, jay walkers, bank
robbers, and people hang-gliding over enemy air space, for starters, in other
words, obvious risky behavior. Pretty soon, the list of people that can be
admitted to our hospitals will have shrunk and beds will be mostly filled with
mothers to be, unless the pregnancy was accidental, real accident victims, no
suicidal bikers allowed, teenagers with heartburn, but not from love, parents
with teenagers, illegal aliens, who get in no matter what, and Olympic athletes
when they sprain an ankle.