He makes a good point

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[–]L_X_A 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I am a strong opponent of vaccine mandates, and I'm also 100% certain the WHO, the CDC, and most of the state health institutions around the world LIED about the virus, the vaccine efficacy, and its safety.

That being said, the "you don't deserve a heart transplant unless you are vaccinated" thing actually makes sense.

Is the vaccine perfectly safe? No.
Is the vaccine 100% effective? No, and its efficacy drops with every new variant.

BUT: The vaccine offers significant protection against the alpha and delta variants, considerably reducing the risk of severe sequelae and death.

Organ recipients are going to be immunocompromised for the rest of their lives. And there are far more candidates than there are organs.

In a situation where there are no other potential recipients for the organ, it's absurd to deny the surgery based on vaccination status. In a situation where there are other people dependent on a transplant, I'd say you gotta give it to the ones with the highest probability of long-term survival.

[–]StillLessons 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Natural immunity.

In at least one of the cases I read about where an organ was being denied, the person it was denied to had already recovered (relatively recently) from a confirmed case of covid. The idea that they were forcing this person - who had immunity better than vaccination, not even close as proven by the literature - to be vaccinated is cruelty. There is no medical benefit there at all. The idea that a vaccine adds immunity to natural immunity is unsupported by research. In fact, they started saying that before they had even begun doing research that could assess that question.

So no, the idea that they are actually thinking about the person's medical suitability for transplant does not fly with me. This is about compliance, and the medical community has become insane in their belief that the way people stay healthy is by complying with the orders of their doctor, regardless of whether those orders are backed up by solid research or not.

Doctors are very much at the center of this massive push toward authoritarianism. They have deluded themselves into thinking that their opinions define healthcare, whether or not those opinions have actually been proven with legitimate research.

[–]L_X_A 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Natural immunity.

Good point. Did not consider it.