Vaccinated? If not, then no hospital entry
Here is a question to ponder: If a person refuses to get one of the COVID vaccines because they’ve just listened to some quack doc on FOX News tell them not to get the jab, then is it fair for them to call upon medical science to bail them out if the virus invades their body, and they or their loved ones catch COVID-19 and require hospitalization?
All around us, people we know are catching
COVID-19. The good news is, most cases are mild to moderate. In fact, so many vaccinated people I know have caught the Omicron variant, that I’ve started to keep a list for future reference. In every instance, I’m glad they got vaccinated, because if they hadn’t, they’d probably be in much worse shape; and these are people I know and about whom I care.
The number of COVID patients in local RGV hospitals has spiked over the past two months by approximately 400 percent, and the number of pediatric patients in hospital has increased by approximately 600% since mid-November, pre-holiday get-togethers.
All of the people from whom I hear say, “The pandemic is over,” I look around, and I think, based on what metrics? Yes, the daily death count is down, but the number of infections has skyrocketed and has yet to even plateau.
The biggest difference between Omicron and Delta is that the latter attacked the deep lung tissue far more than Omicron, which is why so few people these days are being placed on a ventilator.
The newer variant, omicron, seems to stay in the upper airways, meaning, not as many people are dying; but they’re still being hospitalized.
That, in and of itself, creates a big problem, because hospital staff — doctors, nurses, support staff — are suffering burn out on a level never before seen. Sad thing is, approximately 80% of the COVID patients currently hospitalized are unvaccinated. Meaning, most likely, if they had followed the advice of medical science — get vaccinated and boosted — they would be at home instead of lying in a hospital bed or worse, the ICU.
People in line for elective surgeries are sometimes put on hold because a hospital is too full of COVID patients, the majority un-vaxxed, taking up space and resources. Along the way, some hospital staff become infected as well. How is that fair to anyone?
The people who refuse to get vaccinated will say, “It’s my body, and I can choose to do with it as I like.”
That’s fine. It’s your body, but why take up valuable hospital space if you get sick with COVID? If someone thumbs their nose at medical science, which says, get vaccinated for SARS-CoV-2, then why would they trust medical science to heal them if they get sick?
Medical science isn’t political. It’s just, well, science.
You don’t even have to be very smart to figure out the efficacy of either the Moderna or the Pfizer COVID vaccines. If the COVID deaths and hospitalizations overwhelmingly include the unvaccinated, what should that tell people?
The vaccines don’t work? Sorry, but you’d have to be
Sorry, but you’d have to be an outright moron to believe that, and I’m a moron, so I know how they think, but I still got vaccinated.
If you’re unvaccinated and catch COVID, just go home, lie in bed, have some chicken soup, let the body aches wash over you, watch FOX News, ask family and friends to pray for you, shoot yourself up with some horse de-wormer, Ivermectin, and leave the hospital beds vacant for those who have done the responsible thing — they got vaccinated.
If it was up to me to set hospital policy across the country, I’d put out the “No Vacancy” sign for anyone sick with COVID who was not vaccinated.
“Sorry, but we won’t admit you.”
That obviously only includes those who are eligible to get vaccinated, but not under-aged children, because they’re still under their parents’ rule.
If that sounds too harsh, sorry, but it’s a new world out there. Currently, in Texas, only approximately 57% of eligible people have been fully vaccinated. (Source: CDC.) That’s a terrible percentage in the midst of a pandemic that has already claimed the lives of approximately 851,000 people living in the U.S., with more to come.
If the 43% knew that hospitals were closed to them if they caught a nasty case of COVID, how many would then get the shots? I’m guessing quite a few, but probably not They’d just storm the hospitals like they did the Capitol.
It’s gotten so crazy — the pandemic politicized — that the Trumpsters are now even booing their rock star when he recently said at several political rallies that the vaccines work and everyone eligible for them should get vaccinated, and they should get the booster shot as well.
“Boooooo,” his supporters shouted.
When Trump told several crowds, comprised of his most ardent supporters, not to boo after he announced that he had gotten the COVID booster shot, and he urged the crowd to do the same, they raised their voices even louder: “BOOOO.”
One right-wing radio talk show host, Wayne Allyn Root, a longtime Trump supporter, said recently on the Alex Jones (right-wing nut job) show that the former president needs “an intervention from a friend because he’s the greatest president of my lifetime… He’s been right on everything except this issue… He’s so horribly wrong on this issue.”
How does a guy like that even have a national radio show on which he can spread such misinformation?
“Booo.”