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Now that every first world country has vaccine doses in excess of demand, I think a better alternative to all these restrictions would be to just give the voluntarily unvaccinated a lower priority during triage if they need a hospital bed for a COVID infection.

Of course, efforts should be made to expand capacity (my government was unfortunately too incompetent train more medical staff for this since the start of the pandemic).

Obviously, these people think that the disease is less dangerous than the vaccine. They should bear the consequences of their choice. Let's not endanger other's lives/prolong their suffering (surgeries are already being delayed again in my country).

I realize this could be a slippery slope, e.g. someone could argue that we should give lower priority to smokers, obese, or addicted people. However, the vaccine does not require any lifestyle changes and at this point it has already been given to billions and has shown a much lower rate of severe side effects than the disease.



Yeah, you obese, diabetics, alcoholics, smokers, all of them cost more life to society and money, that those of Covid, go and check whats the first cause, second and third in mortality, it is related to lifestyle, and if you have a good/healthy lifestyle, chances you get severe covid are reduced to almost 0!!!! you are the problem, no the people like me, you just don't realize how most of the unhealthy people, who need the jab, medicines, doctors, etc are the ones forcing the healthy or whoever it is who doesn't want to take it. It is like in a rainy day, you expecting me to wear an umbrella because then yours wouldn't work. You should get another kind of umbrella then, or get 5 umbrella booster each year, so you dont get wet





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