> I do agree people might get so paranoid they may avoid going to the doctor all together. But I'd argue that is likely to be a small minority of the population.
Before talking with you, I would have simply assumed that every doctor who *could* get the vaccine *would* get the vaccine, as quickly as possible, as a simple matter of course and good sense. Now? Now I'm a lot less certain of that.
It's a common failing among people of every stripe to make one simple assumption: that deep down, most people are *just like me*. This is closely related to the idea that if Person X is in any way different from me, then Person X must surely be a minority of the population...
I was implicitly assuming that most doctors would get the vaccine immediately. You are assuming that most people would be fine with going to a doctor who had not been COVID-vaccinated. Each of us thinks that the other is probably wrong in these stances. I'm pretty sure that in taking said stances, at least one of us (and possibly both) are falling foul of the above-mentioned "just like me" fallacy at some point.
Which doesn't mean you're wrong. It just means that unless you have evidence, you should be assigning a very low confidence interval.
> Moreover because, as I stated, doctors are able to successfully see and treat immunicompromized patients in clean rooms.
Yes... that requires that the doctor be very careful and keep concentrating on the matter at hand. (And also have a freshly sterilised full-body cloth suit). This is a level of care above and beyond the care a doctor will give to a routine consultation.
> As a side note remember being vaccinated doesnt prevent you from transmitting the disease, it only prevents you from getting sick. So any reasonable person would be focused on the doctors safety precautions and not their vaccination status anyway.
Noted. Preventing you from getting sick does prevent you from generating vast new supplies of the virus, though... so it does *reduce* the odds of passing it on rather significantly. (I know I'd still be happier if the doctor was wearing a mask, vaccinated or not).
...I'm personally in favour of getting the vaccine as soon as I reasonably can. However, I'm reasonably young and healthy but living in a country whose economy was in a poor enough state even before COVID... I would be quite surprised if I get an opportunity to get the vaccine before June at all.
So I might very well end up waiting at least a year whether I want to or not.
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> This is a level of care above and beyond the care a doctor will give to a routine consultation.
While that is true, if you as a patient are particularly scared of getting COVID you still have the right to demand it and ask a doctor if they will take that level of precautions before you see them. Only go to doctors that say yes, if there is enough people out there who fear coronavirus then this would become the norm.
Either way your asking the law and the norms to be changed, either you want to compromise a doctors/nurses right to their own medical privacy, or you want to demand they take stronger precautions in treating you to ensure safety. Personally of the two I would find ita better solution to simply demand a greater level of safety and pay whatever the added price for that may be.
So yea we have two solutions here, my vote is going to go for the one that doesn't require medical professionals to forfeit their personal right to doctor patient confidentiality with their own doctors or their medical history.
As for any evidence I have for doctors and nurses not getting the vaccine... I dont have much.. What I know is 1) there are countless medical journals warning of the fears of the vaccine, professionals saying, demanding, or petitioning that the vaccine not be released without further testing. I also personally know atleast half a dozen medical professionals who do not intend to get the vaccine (people I know personally). I am also rather close with my own doctor who is a family friend and she told me she wont be getting the vaccine until its been out for at least a year and suggests I do the same.