I have a close friend who had a serious stroke on Friday. She was treated at the local hospital ER and stabilized, but she was kept in a hallway for a day after that until a room opened in the Intensive Care unit that was totally occupied by Covid patients.

Can a hospital offer the same level of care in a hallway far removed from the staff and technologies that would have been provided if not for Covid patients? I highly doubt it, and I believe she had a right to the best care available, even if that meant displacing an unvaxed Covid patient whose odds of survival are less than hers.

Drs and medical staff do this all the time in battlefields and disasters. It is unfortunate, but it is our current reality, and most of this is directly due to the political leaning of the majority of Covid patients currently. The Delta variant is going to tax our systems to extremes and the vaxxed will have a better chance of survival than the unvaxxed. It is not a pleasant thought, as I have family and friends who reject the vaccine and masks, but it is about to be forced upon our healthcare system and anyone who has non-Covid related emergency situations.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

The saddest part of this is that you know those most responsible for the politicization of vaccines, the right wing politicians and media, are fully vaccinated and will get immediate and extensive care should they need it, for Covid or anything else.