Sailorsaint
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I have moved on from my "no sympathy" phase into the "intensely dislike" phase of my my Covid lethargy. I not only could care less, but I wish that when a medical emergency such as that in the story above occurs, they would be removed from their ICU bed to make room for those that give a damn about humanity.the damage the unvaccinated is causing beyond spreading covid
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The unvaccinated are killing people in ways they probably never imagined. As the delta variant spreads, hospitals in Florida, Alabama and other states have been filling with covid patients, almost all of them people who chose not to get vaccinated.
As daily infections break records, intensive-care unit beds are scarce or nonexistent. But the surge has also affected non-covid patients, such as the Texas shooting victim who had to wait more than a week for surgery. Louisiana stroke victims who can’t get admitted to hospitals. And the cancer patient I recently had to turn away.
On Aug. 3, I received a call from a hospital that does not have a cancer program. Such calls are routine at the regional referral center where I work.
A doctor at the outlying hospital had a patient with metastatic brain cancer. She was unable to walk, and without urgent radiation treatments there was no hope for any meaningful recovery.
Typically, I would authorize a transfer and start that patient’s treatment the same day. But conditions are no longer typical. My hospital, one of the largest in central Florida, was full of covid patients, more than 90 percent of whom were unvaccinated. We had no beds available.
We had paused elective surgeries the previous week and have been trying to control the influx of patients.
Our emergency department had a 12-hour wait that day………