Should Hospitals have the right to turn away Covid patients from those who have chosen to be unvaccinated?

Why should someone who makes the decision to not be vaccinated take a bed and be treated from someone who has taken precautions and had a breakthrough case?
Shouldn't the unvaccinated just stay home and deal with this virus on their own?
Your thoughts

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meJess · F

Health service in Uk is free to all at point of use. If you start with vaccines will you move on to smokers, the overweight, drug users etc? It’s a short step from there to deciding if people are ‘worth’ treating based on their value to society.

I’d be dead, 8 year old girls with internal injuries are expensive to fix and don’t pay tax.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@meJess but those things are looked at when deciding who should get an ICU bed if they are short of them. What’s the difference with triaging based on vaccine.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

@iamonfire696 should a famous person receive a icu bed for a oops another drug overdose

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@MarineBob yes if there is one but in my province we ran out of ICU beds and had to send patients to other provinces. I think everyone should be given access to treatment but when the time comes that ICU beds are In short supply having had the vaccine or not is a factor of who gets it.

meJess · F

@iamonfire696 triage is based on survival chances not choices an individual may have previously made. An unvaccinated person may have greater chance of survival than a vaccinated one in some circumstances.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@meJess I know that, I work in healthcare. Having had the vaccine or not is factored into that criteria.

meJess · F

@iamonfire696 as are a number of other factors, triage is survival chances based on all evidence not just a vaccine.

iamonfire696 · 41-45, F

@meJess no kidding

fddlpej · 61-69, M

@meJess if you have taken the vaccine you probably won't be in triage so you will eliminate that problem.