Originally Posted by
AxelWolf
Just get out the correct information and everyone does what they want regarding the virus and their own safety.
That would be fine if every person's actions and decisions only effected them. It would be like, fine, you want to jump off a bridge and kill yourself, do it. But that is not the way it works.
Over the weekend I was talking on the phone to a friend from Phila (suburbs). She had a valve replacement, similar but a little different than mine, 15 years ago when I lived in Phila. So last week she was having severe chest pains, and went to the hospital. Despite that the Phila region as a whole has a lot of hospitals and a lot of hospital beds and that her doctor had called ahead making arrangements for her to be admitted for tests, when she got to the hospital there was no place to put her. She spent the night on a stretcher in the hall, outside the emergency room until a bed became available during the night.
So that is the thing most concerning. What is someone in your family has a stroke, or heart attack, or falls and breaks a hip, or your child cuts himself and gets seriously injured, and you get to the hospital and there are no beds available and no staff available to treat you or your family member, because of the choices these people made, which is their right.
At that point those choices are effecting others and they should be yanked out of that bed, have the machines keeping them alive turned off and that space given to other. THAT should be the consequence
of their choice and right to put others in jeopardy.