COVID19

[Buffalobiian]

It has trickle down effects on me in the same way trickle down economics is supposed to. They could use the last ventilator in my state and screw me over if I ever needed one after a motor vehicle accident for example, but the causation is removed enough that I can't directly sue the unvaccinated chap over there for using up my ventilator so that's what I mean by "not my concern".

I guess people being negligent about their health isn't a new thing for me, and there's an abundance of people doing stupid shit and costing healthcare dollars all the time. It'd be similar to a poorly controlled diabetic using that bed due to septic necrotising fasciitis that they might have been able to prevent, or an intubated COPD exacerbation who should have stopped smoking years beforehand.

I'm disillusioned by it all and look at the bright side of this behavior - they keep me in a job. Unless I fuck up really badly, no one's firing me anytime soon. If I instead consider my risk exposure to be too high I can make a personal decision to quit my job, but the ball is outside my court for everything else.

Australia being democratic and a public healthcare system means we just have to deal with the consequences of it. If our borders are closed but vaccination rates are low, we just shut up shop while vaccinations rates rise (and suffer the economic consequences of that). On the other hand, if we decided we've had enough and we're going to open up despite poor vaccination rates and just overwhelm the healthcare resources then collectively we deal with that as well.