Originally Posted by
Merle Haggard
Bingo.
Your freedom to make a poor decision should be accompanied by the requirement to live (or die) with the consequences.
Before the obligatory overweight, smoker, diabetic, helmetless motorcyclist etc. argument, I'd say the same thing if they were literally shutting down ER's - but that's not the reality in which we find ourselves.
I'm not sure why freedom is such a bad thing? It is my decision whether I "live or die" and guess what, the chances of the latter happening are really really slim. Not sure where you are getting your stats on the "literal shutdown" of ERs but the biggest threat to the healthcare industry are
vaccine mandates. Here is another article about
staffing issues.
The only people "terrified" that I have met are the ones that are soaking up the fear inducing stories that the government/media keep pushing.