Of Course, Unvaccinated People Should Get Medical Care

This isn’t even a question

Two years ago, there were only a handful of stock photos of people coughing. Now, there are HUNDREDS. Source: Pexels

After two years of an exhausting global pandemic, people are naturally a bit fed up. As time has progressed, we’ve all generally gone from willing engagement and reasonable debate to shouting matches where the real question is who can get their point across with more vigor.

Nowhere is this more true than in debates about vaccinations. On the one hand, there is strong scientific evidence that vaccines are safe, effective, and can largely prevent the severe disease that has caused COVID-19 to be such a scourge. On the other, there are sometimes reasonable concerns and misunderstandings about immunization, which are amplified by a group of anti-vaccination advocates into a storm of scientific misinformation. This, understandably, leads to some quite fractious debates.

Pictured: Civil vaccine discussion. They don’t even have knives out. Source: Pexels

Amid these discussions, a common theme has been cropping up again and again — the idea that people who are unvaccinated are immoral, and thus they do not deserve healthcare if they get sick. The idea is that being unvaccinated is, at this point, an ignorant personal choice, and thus we should leave these people to fend for…