George Takei says 'willfully unvaccinated' should stop receiving priority medical care

[left-of-center2012]

Legendary actor and civil rights activist George Takei is tired of the unvaccinated taking up hospital space as the coronavirus pandemic spreads among the unvaccinated. Takei's statements came as hospitals are canceling so-called "elective" procedures as the unvaccinated clog up healthcare systems.

"The willfully unvaccinated who wind up in hospitals from Covid should not receive priority medical care over other very sick or injured people who are as much in urgent need of medical care," Takei posted to his 3.2 million followers on Twitter.

"Anti-vaxxers think they are owning us liberals by refusing to get vaccinated. But as the kids say, this is an epic self-own," he explained.

"We are in an age of dummies," he added.

(There was no link to the Tweet)

https://www.rawstory.com/unvaccinated-2654669563/

[SheltieLover]

1. Bazinga!

So glad a well known person is calling for sanity!

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

Link to tweet

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. It's a shitty take, but here's the tweet:

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

4. Put them in a tent and have the janitors check on their ventilators once in a while

[FakeNoose]

5. Well the ventilators are all taken ... so ... ?

[roamer65]

6. Food, water and a cot.

Just like 1918.

[Mr.Bill]

7. Sorry, I like George Takei,

but that attitude is an insult to medical professionals everywhere. They are dedicated to care fore everyone who needs it to the best of their ability. We don't need the medical community to be judgemental. It would be a huge mistake. I'm sure those of you who have medical professionals in your family know what I mean. I am married to a retired RN and have several other medical professionals in my family.

[Demobrat]

15. I don't think he's saying Covid patients shouldn't receive care.

Just that they shouldn’t take precedence over others who need it just as much.

Should a willfully unvaccinated Covid patient receive care while a stroke or accident victim is turned away? Right now, with the hospitals full up with unvaccinated Covid patients, that’s how it is.

Should a mass shooting victim have to die because some anti-vaxxer’s bad decisions caught up with them? Eventually someone is going to have to decide.

At this point the answer is yes.

[smirkymonkey]

23. +1000

[lagomorph777]

29. +1

[OnDoutside]

31. If you have a hospital has one ICU bed free and a Covid Anti-vaxxer comes in at the same time as a

pedestrian knocked down in a hit and run, which one should get the ventilator if both of them need it to survive? I don't see an issue with putting the hit and run victim ahead of the anti-vaxxer.

[Mr.Bill]

32. The answer for triage

would be the one with the best chance of survival.

[Pepsidog]

9. Sounds reasonable to me.

[RicROC]

10. This Covid has become a national emergency.

And as such, the President should declare it a national emergency and do whatever to mitigate the impact of covid on the US population.

Demand that anyone serving the public be vax'd?
All food service workers( Burger King, Chick Filet, et al.)- vax'd.
All health care workers must be vax'd- and if not vax'd unable to work in a health care facility.
All military- vax'd.
All transportation employees-vax'd. Even the clerks issuing tickets.
Any visitors entering hospitals, nursing homes, Urgent care, out-patient clinics, dental offices, Optometrists offices, chiropractors, physical therapy offices- vax'd

[NJCher]

19. how about

to travel on an airline, railroad, or bus, you have to be vaccinated?

Canada did this with airlines.

[RicROC]

34. Yes!

[SergeStorms]

11. Idiocracy is no longer, "just a movie".

We're living it. Every. Stinking. Day.

[IronLionZion]

12. The US rations care by cost

someone is paying for their treatment. There are plenty of folks with serious health issues that are ticking time bombs if left untreated for too long. That was a problem throughout this pandemic when people delayed going to the hospital because of COVID.

[TeamProg]

13. Let the Anti-Vaxxers have their Darwin Awards as they get sent back to the parking lot.

With no ventilator, just a Freedom Card from Abbot & Desantis

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. I see absolutely NO REASON to disagree with this!

Link to tweet

[monkeyman1]

16. agreed ! 100%

[Rhiannon12866]

17. If the unvaccinated refuse to take medical advice, why are they at the hospital??!

[Saffron Walden]

30. Because not all medical people are telling us to get vaccinated.

My daughter-in-law and son are not vaccinated because we live in a place where we are pretty much isolated from other people. They are trying to get pregnant and her doctor told her there hasn't been studies on pregnant women and the vaccine. They have made the well thought out decision to not get vaccinated.

I'm not vaccinated and will not be. I have a number of crippling auto-immune conditions and my body reacts badly to many medications and topical ointments. I can't even use regular soap or the ultra soft toilet paper without breaking out in a horrible skin condition. I also get a frightening inflammatory response to some meds or injury. I was talked into the flu vaccine about 7 years ago (when I wasn't so ill) by a GP and it took me years to recover from - in fact I'm not sure I really did.

I haven't had a cold let alone flu since the mid-90's.

My husband is vaccinated and did so because he was told at the time he would protect me by being vaccinated, which turned out not to be true.

My auto-immune doctor has not mentioned the vaccine to me and won't.

All's good though - reading through the comments here I see I get a janitor to keep an eye on me as I die in tent in a hospital parking lot.

The earth's too overcrowded anyway.

[Rhiannon12866]

36. As for pregnant women, they have been urged to get vaccinated

It's devastating for them to get Covid and even infants have now been infected, not just small children. There was a story on MSNBC the other day about a woman who died of Covid shortly after giving birth, a double tragedy. Getting Covid is much more devastating then temporary side effects from any vaccine and those I knew who got the Pfizer had only a slightly sore arm. I got the Moderna and had bad chills that night and the next day, but that was certainly worth not getting a devastating illness.

[Saffron Walden]

38. This is not what my daughter-in-law was told by her doctor.

The doctor was honest and told my daughter-in-law they don't know. My husband was told he would be protecting me if he got the vaccine but it turns out that wasn't true.

My son and his wife live in a very rural part of the US. No nearby neighbors. They don't of course use public transportation and do not work with anyone. Sometimes you have to make your own judgments. Some people's situations are different than yours.

About the infants getting covid - is it killing them or are they just testing positive? I vaguely remember Tony Fauci about 30 years ago telling the public that AIDS was taking off in the heterosexual community as it was in the homosexual community in a successful effort to get more funding and fame.

I wouldn't get a slightly sore arm, or even bad chills from the vaccine. It would probably kill me.

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Well, the medical authorities I've see on MSNBC have said pregnant women need to be vaccinated

This came after a woman died of Covid not long after giving birth because she thought she could put off vaccination until after she had her baby.

And, yes, young children and infants are now in hospitals and on ventilators after contracting the virus. That's why everyone needs to be vaccinated, to protect young children who aren't yet approved to receive the vaccine.

[Saffron Walden]

43. After your post I did a very quick search and found this;

https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?IDNUMBER=1166062

I daren't search anymore! It's just too awful.

I think my daughter-in-law's OB was being very honest when she said, "We just don't know".

[Rhiannon12866]

44. Well, all I know is what I've heard from medical authorities on the news

I listen to the Surgeon General and Dr. Fauci and the news story I related was on mainstream news. The only adverse reactions I've heard from getting vaccinated were temporary.

[xmas74]

37. A few coworkers have had babies in the past several months

And OBs are encouraging moms to get vaccinated while pregnant, especially since moms have been shown to pass on immunity in utero.

[Saffron Walden]

40. See my post above. I wonder if any babies have been born that were conceived after

mother's were double vaccinated.

[SKKY]

18. I asked a Dr. I work with about this...

...and her reply was, "Someone's heart attack, or stroke, or broken neck isn't potentially going to sicken a lot of other people." So, while agree with Takei 99% of the time, this is the 1% I don't.

[Demobrat]

20. So basically the anti-vaxxers have the power of life and death

over the rest of us. If they get sick due to their own bad decisions they get help, and somebody else has to die.

And that’s just how it is.

[SKKY]

25. Life is complicated. Especially if you're a Dr.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Yes, but a dead anti-vax Covid patient isn't going to sicken a lot of other people either.

Isolate them, put them in a tent on hospital grounds, give them a respirator if needed, check on them if health care workers aren't stretched too thin, but other than that, precedence should be given to patients who are in the hospital through no fault of their own.

I don't see any need to go out of the way for anti-vax covid patients since they are just going to go back out there and do it again and continue to spread the anti-vax message. The bare minimum should be done for them.

[cinematicdiversions]

21. Does he feel the same way about the morbidly obese?

Because that is the same argument for not covering the obese under universal health insurance.

[Demobrat]

22. Obesity can't be prevented with a shot in the arm.

It’s often seen seen as a choice, which is why fat shaming is acceptable to many, but intelligent people know it’s much more complicated than that.

A free, readily available shot, OTOH, is pretty simple.

[dickthegrouch]

28. Obesity is not contagious /nt

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

26. I agree. The willfully unvaxxed covidiot spreaders should

not receive priority medical care over other very sick or injured people who are as much in urgent need of medical care.

The jerks who killed granma, and continually spread disease because of their kool aid induced stupid, deserve least consideration for urgent medical care.

[NurseJackie]

27. Perfect!

[Zeitghost]

33. Punishing those

Whose poor personal decisions lead to poor health outcomes and therefore extra medical care is a dangerous precedent to start.

It might sound like a great way to "own the Magats", but it's a slippery slope indeed.

[stollen]

35. Germany is going to start making anti-vaxers pay for the vaccine

That will change a few minds.

[demtenjeep]

39. totally agree

play stupid games.............................

[bluestarone]

41. AGREE!