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Originally Posted by Paisley
Less likely to require hospitalization, yes, but still consuming much needed resources. Non-COVID patients are absolutely being impacted.
I was diagnosed about 10 months ago. I've had 3 related surgeries since then. All 3 had scheduling issues because of COVID. The cancer center I go to (which houses oncologists, surgeons, and provides chemo) has reduced its patient capacity. Cancer patients need these appointments, and timing matters.
It's not just hurting the people who decline to get vaccinated.
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First, I trust you realize I feel horrible for your situation. I chose to treat you comment on its merits alone because I think that is the respectful response. I was fortunate the lesions I have are not cancerous. I don’t know what the other side of that conversation is like. It’s horrifying simply to wait and try to read the doctor’s face.
Regarding my comment, in context, I asserted most of omicron harm was to dimwits who refused vaccine. Was 90% an overstatement? That’s a dispute of degree, and I stand to be critiqued for rhetorical hyperbole where it fits. I’ll cop to that. But in context, I don’t think it’s heresy to state that these jackasses are largely harming themselves. I’m speaking in aggregate, coldly, as to numbers. And yes — that sounds wildly insensitive, particularly having just been thru an experience with the HC system myself.
I meant no insensitivity. I think it’d have been disrespectful to answer any other way than as I did.
