Are you willing to sign a form refusing care for any risky behavior for which you made a personal decision to participate? Ride a bicycle without a helmet, not wear a lifejacket, any sports participation, drive when unnecessary, eat too many cheeseburgers, are you currently at the recommended weight, should we reduce care if you develop a condition due to being over optimal weight Etc. You ever drink any alcohol? People have a right to make personal health decisions based on their personal belief, and no doctor, and especially not you, have a right to judge them for that to impact their care. Regardless of your personal health decision, or anyone else's, you have no more right to care than any other person. Should we apply your same logic to those who can afford better care, let's just take all the doctors from the poor hospitals and staff ours. After all, those poor people had plenty of opportunity to make themselves better. How about this idea, let's reserve all the care capacity for those under 60 and say screw all those old people who will likely die to covid or something else anyway in the next decade. Cancer patients, let's free up the beds and nurses. This isn't Nazi Germany my friend. You're pointing the finger at the wrong people. Our healthcare system has had over a year to prepare for covid variants and spikes yet they are woefully unprepared. Instead of realizing and being angry about that you just insist that people be left in the street to die.
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