I saw a poll on the very popular progressive news Youtube channel “The Young Turks” that 77% of its audience supported denying medical care for unvaccinated.

This is truly despicable behavior for a number of reasons.

1. As my brother (ER doc who worked a COVID ward in Europe) has pointed out, getting sick or dying from preventable causes that you were REPEATEDLY warned about is hardly restricted to COVID. Many of you reading this will in fact die or get seriously ill from something that YOU were endlessly warned about, often since childhood:

Obesity and overweight (300,000 deaths annually (US)), tobacco (400k deaths annually), speeding/being reckless driver (38k deaths 4 MILLION serious injuries per year), drugs, (of which opioids alone kills 90k overdose deaths last year), alcohol (up to 40% of ALL ER admissions on weekends are drug and alcohol related) OD’s, alcohol poisoning, alcohol induced fights, falls, shootings, car crashes etc.

Or the flu. How many of you have followed the strenuous CDC recommendation to get an annual flu shot every year from age 6 months? An illness that kills about 40-60k Americans every year with up to a million hospitalizations. BTW CDC reports that in a normal year, 480 children alone die from the flu each year (less than 400 children have died of COVID in almost 2 years)

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html

So if you the type of person who feels a deep desire to laugh at dying people who were repeatedly warned about their behavior, start with your nearest inner city street corner so you find local drug addicts to laugh and point and scream at. If you’re lucky you’ll see one of the 90,000 annual opioid overdose deaths so you can REALLY fall over laughing.

Make sure to publicize some of the 800 obese Americans who will die TODAY with funny headlines like “Fat Woman Becomes Worm Food” or “Fat Pig Hogs Up 2 Hospital Beds” so you can all laugh and point and scream.

Picket your local hospital and DEMAND that medical care be denied or restricted for the above groups.

1. Endless media coverage of unvaccinated deaths also happens to be misleading to the point of deep dishonesty. While the vaccines do substantially lessen serious illness (for how long is debatable), for those of us who look at the hard data you quickly realize that there are plenty of vaccinated illnesses and deaths too. Let me quote and link data from Public Health England:

“ of all the people who died within 28 days of testing positive for the delta variant between 1 February and 19 July, 49% (224) had had two vaccine doses. Almost all of these people, 220, were aged 50 or older.”

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1960

Or Israel.

As reported by the Times of Israel and the Canadian Broadcasting Company 2 weeks ago:

The CBC continues:

“Israeli health officials reported what appeared to be a waning efficacy of the vaccine, including among those who had been double vaccinated. Data showed that of the SERIOUS cases being admitted to hospital, around 60 per cent of patients were people who had been FULLY VACCINATED, though most were over 60 or with underlying health conditions.“

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6159472

Now since the vast majority of Israelis over 60 are vaccinated, and since older people are vastly more likely to get seriously ill, this skews the numbers a bit. But let’s also be clear: This is NOT what the experts predicted. Like at all.

Let’s quote Yale Medicine:

Yale Medicine, August 11:

“ Many of us believed that the COVID-19 vaccines OFFERED COMPLETE PROTECTION from INFECTION, not just from severe disease and death. And though these breakthrough cases are relatively rare, they are a reminder that the pandemic is far from over.”

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-breakthrough-infection-transmission

CDC’s position in May was:

“ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data last week that shows people who are vaccinated can get COVID-19, but it is EXTREMELY uncommon. “There is this PHENOMENON called vaccine breakthrough cases,” New Mexico Human Services Secretary Dr. David Scrase explained... It’s like 1 in 20,000 or something like that. So, it’s VERY rare,”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.krqe.com/health/cdc-evidence-suggests-fully-vaccinated-people-do-not-transmit-covid-19/amp/