Heart Transplant Patient REJECTED!

alohafri wrote:He refused to get the COVID vaccine and they didn't see him as a good risk, so they took him off the top of the list.


Fuck him. Guess what douchebag, if you are a smoker going in for a lung transplant and you refuse to quit smoking, you are coming off the list too. Fuck you. I have no sympathy for these assholes who base their medical decisions on their political leanings. LET'S GO DARWIN.

SoxIlliniRob wrote:

alohafri wrote:He refused to get the COVID vaccine and they didn't see him as a good risk, so they took him off the top of the list.


Fuck him. Guess what douchebag, if you are a smoker going in for a lung transplant and you refuse to quit smoking, you are coming off the list too. Fuck you. I have no sympathy for these assholes who base their medical decisions on their political leanings. LET'S GO DARWIN.

The smoking example is a great parallel.  I saw the interview with the guy's mother (he's 31) and she said it's not a political thing for him and that he's not anti-vax.  She said he's afraid that with his compromised system this vaccine will kill him.  Not sure I trust her story, but it's a slightly reasonable argument, but the dude is going to die of a shitty heart anyway, so get the shot.  I don't blame the medical system for not being willing to give a heart to someone who might die of Covid a month after.  I mean, you'd think he'd be super compromised during his recovery.  Wouldn't he die in very short order if he contracted the virus during his recovery?

alohafri wrote:

SoxIlliniRob wrote:

alohafri wrote:He refused to get the COVID vaccine and they didn't see him as a good risk, so they took him off the top of the list.


Fuck him. Guess what douchebag, if you are a smoker going in for a lung transplant and you refuse to quit smoking, you are coming off the list too. Fuck you. I have no sympathy for these assholes who base their medical decisions on their political leanings. LET'S GO DARWIN.

The smoking example is a great parallel.  I saw the interview with the guy's mother (he's 31) and she said it's not a political thing for him and that he's not anti-vax.  She said he's afraid that with his compromised system this vaccine will kill him.  Not sure I trust her story, but it's a slightly reasonable argument, but the dude is going to die of a shitty heart anyway, so get the shot.  I don't blame the medical system for not being willing to give a heart to someone who might die of Covid a month after.  I mean, you'd think he'd be super compromised during his recovery.  Wouldn't he die in very short order if he contracted the virus during his recovery?

If that's the case, then it's a different story. If that's the case, then damn the media for not reporting it. But my Spidey-sense is signaling Joe Rogan.

sharpy wrote:You guys are absolutely correct. It's not like if you need a heart the team goes to Jewell, picks one out, and sticks it in. They are very limited in quantity and the receiver has to jump thru a whole bunch of hoops to get the heart - physically, mentally, and socially (have to have a support system).  So they are very picky. Plus, after you get the heart, a heart from a completely different person, your immune system thinks its a foreign body (like an infection) and attacks it and tries to get rid of it by killing it. So, you are immediately placed on very strong immune suppression medication, opening yourself up to all kinds of infection - and these meds can't be stopped. So if you get infected, your immune system has to stay suppressed, or you lose the heart. So the transplant team has no choice in this situation - he has to get the vaccine - just like I am sure he was forced to the the CHicken pox vaccine, the hepatitis vaccine, the pneumonia shot, the flu vaccine, the german measles vaccine, etc etc etc.

alohafri wrote:Meanwhile, the anti-vaxxer cop who was on Frau Ingraham's show a few months ago died...from COVID. If there was only some kind of steps he could have taken that could have prevented this.


Oh, he refused on religious grounds. He must have been either Dutch Reformed, Church of the First Born, Faith Assembly, or Endtime Ministries...all HUGELY popular religions.