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Texas hospital faces closure due to vaccine mandate, CEO says

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I don't know that I would want to go to a hospital full of unvaccinated staff...

Why not? Don't you have the vaccine?

Do I want to test my vaccine efficiently being around another person that is exposed to hundreds of cases a week?

What about every immunocomromised person? You going to sacrifice them because someone read on Facebook that the vaccine made them magnetic?

A growing portion of society is getting tired of these plague spreading herman cain nomination recipients demanding their 'freedom' to spread disease to others.

> A growing portion of society is getting tired of these plague spreading herman cain nomination recipients demanding their 'freedom' to spread disease to others.

This is the heart of the issue. How will vaccine skeptics and believers co-exist? I guess we could segregate by vaccine status. What do you see as the solution to this problem?

My take, if you want to reap the benefits of modern society you get a vaccine. Exceptions can exist for those with medical reasons, but not religious.

I'm unlikely to get a covid vaccination at this point, so let's use me as an example.

Will I be able to earn a living?

Will I be able to travel freely?

Can I go to the store?

Shall I be able to live where I do now or perhaps I should be put into some sort of camp?

What exact benefits of modern society should be withheld from the unvaccinated?

Travel on an airplane or public transportation. No.

Earn a living? Better find an employer not under a mandate.

The store? Well, if they require vaccines to step on the property, you better get one.

If you want to act like Typhoid Mary, then feel free to be treated like her.

So the choice is get the vaccine or "act like Typhoid Mary"? Can you hear how extreme your argument is?

Edit: Typhoid Mary is an interesting case. She spent decades in quarantine. She broke quarantine at times and infected people. It's a very interesting article, even more so with the extreme rhetoric in this thread.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

Any nurse "exposed to hundreds of cases a week" has probably had Covid by now and is thus far less likely to transmit it to you than anyone who never had it but took the vaccine.

Even the immunocompromised are probably better off having actual nursing staff (even ones with a marginally higher risk of transmitting Covid) than not having them. I mean, it's kinda funny how the freakout about ICU capacity just disappears the second it's time to start mass firing hospital staff who won't get the shot.

Can you point me to a large RCT showing that the unvaccinated are "plague spreaders" for the currently-dominant Delta variant, in comparison to the vaccinated? For the purposes of the comparison I will take a 50% or greater reduction in transmission, although the way the vaccine mandators talk you would think it's 100%.

They might even have people there of the wrong religion! best stay away, indeed.

Because you’re clearly the one risking being around a bunch of sick people all the time.

You should probably avoid the grocery store too. Those people might appear healthy but under the surface they’re just dirty people trying to get everyone sick.

Really we should lock up the unvaccinated until they get with the program.

“About 80 percent of the hospital's funding comes from Medicare and Medicaid, Mr. Jasper told KCBD.”

I’ll guess that west Texans want their cake and eat it too.

Am I following your implication here correctly? People in rural west Texas deserve to have their hospitals closed down because of their political affiliations?

Hell, Trump wasn't even an anti-Medicare politician, he actually campaigned on keeping it going.

You may conflate politics with medical best practices during a pandemic, but as long as I’m paying their salaries they don’t get to have their freedom dole cake and eat it too.

lol you have none of the power you think you do, and this precedent you are embracing for the sake of a short-term jolt of retributive zeal will be turned against you and those you love in very short order.

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