Amazing stupidity: Patient denied heart transplant for refusing to get vaccinated

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A 31-year-old man (moron) is no longer eligible to receive a heart transplant at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital because he refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19. DJ Ferguson was at the top of the transplant list, but under the hospital’s policy, he is ineligible because he’s unvaccinated.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brigham-and-womens-hospital-boston-refusing-heart-transplant-man-wont-get-vaccinated/

[Effete Snob]

1. These people are such amazing assholes

They are encouraging people to protest the hospital and further harass health care workers.

There are a more patients in need of a heart transplant than there are donor hearts to go around.

This requires that the limited number of available hearts go to where they will do the most good.

Heart recipients are required to take immune suppressing drugs in order to adjust to the transplant. That renders them particularly prone to infection by a lot of diseases.

For this reason, they are required to be vaccinated against a lot of diseases BEFORE they get the transplant.

We are currently in the midst of a global pandemic, against which vaccines have been proven to reduce risks associated with infection.

This fucking idiot believes he is entitled to squander the opportunity he wants to DENY to some other patient, by receiving one of the limited number of available hearts based on his completely voluntary non-compliance with the protocol required for this form of health care.

Yes, health care is a right. He has voluntarily chosen to reject what is required to receive this form of health care.

It is his right to reject to receive treatment, and that is what he is doing here.

[dalton99a]

2. +1

[greenman3610]

3. More consequences like this, please

[Siwsan]

4. I just posted about a guy who was taken off the kidney transplant list, for the same reason

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216288039

[Scrivener7]

5. I bet he would have taken any anti-rejection medication they handed to him without

question and without knowing a thing about it, and without thinking it was a conspiracy.

I can't waste empathy on this fool.

The heart will go to someone who will actually take care of it.

[Talitha]

6. No pity for intentional ignorance.

[mitch96]

7. "As Mama says..stupid is as stupid does"

[WHITT]

8. Another "I Did My Own Research" Idiot

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Apparently, His Research...

...didn't extend to the medical consequences to his own condition.
I'll go with: there was no research beyond some Facebook page he follows.