Busaholic
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The smoker with lung cancer or the chronic alcoholic with liver disease don't represent an existentialist threat to the people charged with giving them medical attention, or to other patients, a big difference. There have been many documented cases of surgeons refusing operations etc to patients who have either refused to adjust their lifestyles, or have proved unable to, whereas I've not heard of anyone being refused treatment for Covid infection because they've chosen non-vaccination. Maybe that will change, or the unvaccinated NHS staff are given the option of staying in their job and forming a 'bubble' just dealing with deliberately unvaccinated patients.Only a small percentage of people in ICUs and hospital due to Covid are unvaccinated. Yes, proportionally the unvaccinated are overrepresented. But they make up such a small percentage of the population (and particularly those at "high" risk) that even if you imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated, it would make very little difference to hospitals.
Seeing as we are on the subject - do you also have no time for people who smoke? Or drink? Or have an unhealthy lifestyle? After all, all these groups are overrepresented in hospital as well. But nobody is suggesting they should face restrictions "for the greater good".
Your 'small percentage' of the population amounts to several million people, by the way, though I'm happy it's declining a little.