Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian from Gainesville, Georgia, today.
Speaker 4: Hi, David, glad you're doing well.
Thank you.
So it seems like we're on the verge of more mass hospitalizations from this Delta variant,
so we may be we may or in Georgia, especially here in Georgia.
So I guess my question is, since vaccinated people for the most part have largely kind
of returned to mostly return to normal, we're starting to go into movie theaters now even.
Oh, what I hate to even suggest this, but should at some point, hospitals consider prioritizing,
for example, when somebody gets into a really bad car accident and they need instant medical
attention versus somebody who's unvaccinated and needs medical attention.
I just I just I feel like that because of the wave of the new coronavirus wave that's
coming through, that the hospitals are just going to get possibly even more overwhelmed
than when we first went into lockdown.
And I don't Speaker 1: think it'll get that bad because
there are a lot of people vaccinated who are very unlikely to get the virus.
And if they do, they're very unlikely to be symptomatic.
And if they are, they're very unlikely to be hospitalized.
So I think it's not going to get that bad.
I do think it's going to get bad, particularly among the unvaccinated population.
But what you're suggesting is complicated because.
So, like, what's the fundamental of what you're saying?
Correct me if I'm wrong, is not getting vaccinated is an irresponsible action.
So therefore, if you need medical attention as a result of that, you should be lower priority,
more or less.
That's what you're saying, right?
Speaker 4: That's what I'm I don't I don't know if that's what should be done.
Right.
I'm going to get to what should hospitals consider that as an option?
I don't especially Speaker 1: I don't think so.
And the reason why is we know riding a motorcycle is really dangerous compared to driving in
a car.
Would we say people in motorcycle accidents should be prioritized from car accidents?
No, no, people wouldn't say that.
We know that smoking is a self-destructive and and negative to your health activity.
Does that mean if you smoke and you go and you have, I don't know, a pulmonary embolism?
I don't even know if smoking can cause that, but some lung thing acute.
You go to the emergency room and they go, sorry, the kid who broke his ankle gets priority
because the kid doesn't smoke.
The kid was just playing basketball.
It it it just you know, hospitals have a duty to treat and they have triage protocols.
And I just I know what you're saying, which is it's such an easy thing.
You just go get vaccinated.
You reduce the chances of clogging up the medical system.
I just don't think in practice it's going to it's really something that can be done.
Speaker 4: I see, I see, and I think I think you're right, I don't I don't think it will
get that bad.
But I'm also looking at this from this perspective of like, for example, when we went into lockdown.
Yep.
A lot of us stayed home.
We were off the roads.
We didn't you know, that helped with that help to some extent with with car crashes.
Yeah.
Which like so I'm a traffic engineer, for example.
So I see I have seen throughout this year the even though there were fewer cars on the
road, there was an increase in there was an increase particularly in deaths.
Yeah.
Speaker 1: Per capita capita car accident deaths.
Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes indeed.
So I noticed that.
And I think some of that is possibly due to, you know, OK, there's fewer people on the
road so people feel more comfortable driving at higher speeds.
And that's when those collisions take place.
Absolutely.
That's the theory.
Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the same thing, like if you were driving irresponsibly fast.
So we're going to treat the person with the headache first.
It just doesn't work that way.
That's not the way our system works.
Speaker 4: Yeah, indeed.
Speaker 1: But a very, very important topic.
And I appreciate you bringing it up.
Speaker 4: Thank you, David.
All right, Speaker 1: thank you very much.
All right, guys, excellent topics today.
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