Doctors running out of compassion for unvaccinated
If you’ve ever wondered how doctors are dealing with those filling up hospitals and graves because they choose not to get vaccinated, here’s one frontline doctor’s opinion:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-17/vaccinated-covid-doctor-shot
Anita Sircar is an infectious-disease physician and clinical instructor of health sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine. You can read her article, written on August 17, 2021 in the Los Angeles Times.
“Well,” I said, “I can pretty much guarantee we would have never met had you gotten vaccinated, because you would have never been hospitalized. All of our COVID units are full and every single patient in them is unvaccinated. Numbers don’t lie. The vaccines work.” Anita Sincar, MD speaking to an unvaccinated patient dying of COVID-19.
He didn’t want to be vaccinated because the vaccine wasn’t proved. But after he got sick “the treatments he had turned to — antibiotics, monoclonal antibodies and hydroxychloroquine — were considered experimental, with mixed evidence to support their use.”
She provides a check list of reasons for not getting vaccinated with the answers to those excuses.
- If you believe the pandemic is almost over and I can ride it out, without getting vaccinated, you could not be more wrong. This virus will find you.
2. If you believe I’ll just wait until the FDA approves the vaccine first, you may not live to see the day.
3. If you believe if I get infected I’ll just go to the hospital and get treated, there is no guarantee we can save your life, nor even a promise we’ll have a bed for you.
4. If you believe I’m pregnant and I don’t want the vaccine to affect me, my baby or my future fertility, it matters little if you’re not alive to see your newborn.
5. If you believe I won’t get my children vaccinated because I don’t know what the long-term effects will be, it matters little if they don’t live long enough for you to find out.
6. If you believe I’ll just let everyone else get vaccinated around me so I don’t have to, there are 93 million eligible, unvaccinated people in the “herd” who think the same way you do and are getting in the way of ending this pandemic.
7. If you believe vaccinated people are getting infected anyway, so what’s the point?, the vaccine was built to prevent hospitalizations and deaths from severe illness. Instead of fatal pneumonia, those with breakthrough infections have a short, bad cold, so the vaccine has already proved itself. The vaccinated are not dying of COVID-19.
The doctor summarizes her article beautifully: “The burden of this pandemic now rests on the shoulders of the unvaccinated. On those who are eligible to get vaccinated but choose not to, a decision they defend by declaring, “Vaccination is a deeply personal choice.” But perhaps never in history has anyone’s personal choice affected the world as a whole as it does right now. When hundreds and thousands of people continue to die — when the most vulnerable members of society, our children, cannot be vaccinated — the luxury of choice ceases to exist.“
Please get vaccinated and encourage your family members to get vaccinated. Continue to wear a mask, practice social distancing and wash your hands frequently. The pandemic is far from over, as proven by the number of the infected continues to grow in Alberta.
