You Have a Right to Remain Unvaccinated; Do you Have a Right to a Hospital Bed if You Get It?

I personally know of a dying man who waited four hours for a bed at Finley Hospital, Dubuque. A gentleman from Sioux City whose pacemaker got infected couldn’t get into any of his local hospitals, so he had to take an ambulance to Omaha, Neb. My niece, an emergency room doc in Ohio, is not just exhausted, but a tad furious at the unvaccinated horde presenting in her hospital. Myself, I wouldn't want the emergency doc P-Oed at me before I even arrived!

Online sources vary in their estimates of how many Covid patienets are unvaccinated. Louisiana, the lowest estimate, is 80%. Most U.S. numbers run right around a hundred—96%, 98% and one  99 percent. Healthpayer Intelligence says "unvaccinated COVID-19 patients contributed over $13 billion to national healthcare spending from June 2021 through November 2021. So yeah, we are all footing the bill.

While it is anybody's right not to get vaccinated, and I endorse it wholeheartedly, do you also have a right to crowd into a hospital, when you do get it? Put an additional burden on overworked staff? Strain resources? Make cancer, stroke, burn or whatever patients wait for hours? I don't think so, and it is about time that political leaders everywhere recognize how easy it is for libertarian types to demand their rights to pollute, not get vaccinated or whatever, but we, the rest of the society, pay for their actions. 

It is unfair, undemocratic and unconscionable.