08-18-2021, 06:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-18-2021, 06:36 PM by RobbyPants.)
Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)
Coronavirus spreads. But don't panic! (topical thread)
(Cross post from the Trump thread)
Vaccine refusers risk compassion fatigue
The article gets into some interesting layers of ethics. Medical professionalism vs human frustration, whether or not to prioritize helping those who didn’t cause their own problems vs those who did, and general notions of individualism vs collectivism.
If nothing else, it’s interesting reading the sentiment of medical professionals.
Vaccine refusers risk compassion fatigue
Quote:But that’s not what happened. COVID-19 hasn’t ended. Instead, infection rates are going up. The Delta variant has taken hold, and hospitals are filling up again. But this time the suffering seems different, because it is avoidable. Optional. A choice.
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This is a fact that many of us in health care—all exhausted, all having given too much already—are having a hard time ignoring as we head into a new wave of COVID-19 patients.
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What makes me the maddest,” one of my doctor friends told me, “is that these people will reject science right until the second they need everything I have to keep them alive, and then they feel that they can come to our door and be entitled to that help and that hard work.” This friend is characterizing the inconsistency in the behavior she sees in people declining a vaccine but then demanding medical care based on the same science. That inconsistency feels, to her and to other dedicated medical professionals trying to survive this pandemic, very much like dishonesty.
The article gets into some interesting layers of ethics. Medical professionalism vs human frustration, whether or not to prioritize helping those who didn’t cause their own problems vs those who did, and general notions of individualism vs collectivism.
If nothing else, it’s interesting reading the sentiment of medical professionals.
