More than 90% of seriously ill people in hospital with covid are unvaccinated. And not merely unvaccinated, but unvaccinated by choice. In America, this means that Republicans are dying in greater numbers than Democrats, and that anti-vaxxers - and those who believe, and promote, the wilder conspiracy theories - are removing themselves from the gene pool by their own volition. They may view their vaccine refusal as 'freedom', but it’s a 'freedom' that’s leaving so many of them incapacitated or worse. And, of course, they aren’t considering the burden they’re placing on the doctors and nurses who have to treat them, intubate them, give them palliative care and, all too often, make that difficult phone-call to tell relatives that their loved one has died.
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