Just one example, people who need a new hip. Yes, it's not super super urgent right now. But it probably hurts a lot and if they don't get a new one sooner or later, everything will be so broken that they can't really fix anything anymore. Another one, cancer patients. Maybe it's not a life or death right now, but the longer you wait, the harder it will be to treat. I just fucking can't with the people who are like 'my freedom, I'm not a sheep' like bruh there's people fucking dying, you're taking up the place of someone who actually can't do anything about their situation and needs medical care while you decided to just not do anything to try and not get sick. Yes the vaccine doesn't work 100%. That's old news. No vaccine (that I know of, but I'm no expert and frankly quite needlefobic) works a hundred percent, it's all about lessening the chance of getting sick and that if you get sick there's a smaller chance of ending up in the hostpital.

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Thank you so much everyone for all the medals, holy crap, that's amazing! I honestly thought I was going to get a lot of negative feedback, but to my surprise that's not the case. And I'm sorry for everyone who lost someone because of Covid and for everyone who's still waiting on their hospital treatment. Thanks for all your stories.

Also, the argument against my post that I've seen several times, is that if you're not going to treat unvaccinated people, you also shouldn't treat cancer people who smoked a lot, obese people, alcoholics, fast drivers, basically people who's choices made them end up in hospital. First I sort of agreed but I still felt there was a difference, so I've been thinking about it, and basically I'm going to copy paste a comment I made on someone else's comment:

Okay, so yes, I agree partly with what you're saying. More people here have commented that if the covid patients dont get treatment, neither should people who smoke and get cancer, fat people, all that. And for a part I agree, because they're all caused by themselves.

However, I still think there's a difference. I'm just going to take smokers as example so I don't have to keep repeating the whole list, okay? Okay, so, as far as I know, two years of smoking won't immidiately give you cancer. That's a process that takes years, for many at least. Like my grandma, she was a heavy smoker for 40 years and died at about 62 or so. I'm not saying it takes that long for everyone, but what I mean is that most people that need cancer treatment because of smoking right now, already started wayyy before covid started. And before covid started, yes, there were problems in hospitals, people where overworked and underpayed, but (as far as I know, but correct me if I'm wrong) there were enough beds and doctors didn't need to choose who to treat. So even if they ended up in the hospital, it wouldn't be at the cost of other people.

On the other hand, Covid patients who didn't get vaccinated, knew about the severely overcrowded hospitals, they knew about people having to have their own treatment rescheduled time and time again to the point where it was too late for them, because of covid patient had to take their place cause they were seen as more urgent. They know they will be taking up the hospital bed of someone else who might actually have tried to do everything they can to not get covid. And yet, they dont get vaccinated and try to make matters a little less worse. Do you really think it's fair for other people to die because some people didn't want to get vaccinated?

With the driving example you gave though, I agree. I hadn't thought of that yet, but I realise we all must be careful with everything, not just get vaccinated, to help the hospitals a little bit.

And I agree, in a better world where the hospitals weren't so overcrowded, of course you wouldn't let unvaccinated just die like that. But now other people are dying because of them. Just look in the comments. So many stories of people losing people because their treatments kept getting rescheduled. I think that's unfair.

I was recently in the US and I was surprised at how normal these comically and unnecessarily large trucks have become there. What also struck me was how the argument of having one was often that since so many people have them, it's safer to drive in one as well. What a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Recently I've seen more than a few of these in the Netherlands (this picture was taken in Leiden), and I'm getting worried of these getting more popular. Do you see this as a possibility?

I frankly don't care how it's done. I just want something done about these fucking animals who vandalise every inch of public transit. It's disgusting. I'm tired of being surrounded by these tribalistic morons who spray their god-awful tags everywhere because they think it makes them look tough.

A couple of Dutch football fans brought their swapfiets bikes over to US

Every first Monday of each month they will test the air raid sirens. This happens at 12 a clock in the whole country. It's pretty loud and doesn't stay on longer then a few minutes. But it's good to be aware that this Monday you will hear it.

Edit: it isn't necessary a airraid sirens. It's mostly (not often) used If there are harmful chemicals in the air. This way you know when to stay inside Edit: it takes 1min and 30 seconds. It rings twice if you hear it 3 times go inside

And it is a crowded train...

Ankle deep snow, zero visibility, only pure determination. Massive Respect

I can't be the only one with this issue?