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In reply to the discussion: Message auto-removed [View all]Ocelot II
(116,021 posts)of the care being offered, the health care system shouldn't be expected to give them the care they want if doing so interferes with the right of others to the same care. There is a long list of people waiting for organ transplants, and the protocols are that these scarce organs are given to people who are likely to benefit from them. An active alcoholic will not be eligible for a liver transplant, nor will a smoker be eligible for a lung transplant, because the organs they would receive would be damaged by their drinking or smoking and the transplant would ultimately fail. A potential organ transplant recipient who refuses a covid vaccine is not likely to survive the pandemic simply because organ recipients have to take drugs that suppress their immune systems, leaving them sitting ducks for a covid infection. Even with the vaccine they are more susceptible to infection but at least they would have a better chance of survival.