But not a lot of pensioners would be getting passports or Tay Tay tickets. Costs versus benefits doesn’t apply. For them it would be a decision between turning on the heating, buying appropriate food or getting an expensive vaccination.Costs vs benefits. And less than the cost of a passport renewal.
(and far less than Tay Tay tickets!)
Or paying for extensive medical treatment if they catch RSV.
Mostly the taxpayer picks up the tab and increases bed utilisation and emergency wait times.
Just can’t agree. You said it is all about priorities. For a large chunk of the population they would love to choose between passports and RSV but life is not that sweet. This is an AFF forum but that doesn’t excuse us from having consideration for those so much less fortunate than us.
Are usually the ones who get sick more than the ones for whom healthcare is cheap. There is a strong correlation between socioeconomic status and health outcomes
But WR, that’s irrelevant as to one’s personal choice to get vaccinated or not. You can still have concern for others while protecting your own personal health. And in fact, as seen from covid, flu and whooping cough, measles etc, getting vaccinated where possible protects not only you but others around you.
Never crossed my mind either.
The two are completely unrelated. Flying is at the top of Maslow hierarchy. First world problem. Basic health care isn’t. And I know I’m preaching to the converted.
Of course. But to cast some negative connotation on those who simply can’t afford it and not because of poor prioritisation isn’t on either.
Maybe you had some haemodynamic instability and they were checking your pacemaker arrhythmia log for irregularities (your remote monitor would have been at home and unable to communicate with your pacemaker if in hospital). Maybe you had radiotherapy and we like checking if there’s been damage to the pacemaker before/during/after treatment (each practice has a radioonc protocol)? This is important particularly in pacing-dependent patients or if receiving treatment in the region of the pacemaker. Maybe they noticed your device hadn’t been checked in over a year? Again important in a pacing-dependent patient whose battery is getting close to elective replacement indicator status. Maybe you had an MRI and they’re doing a routine check post (unusual reason, a tech would do a proper check with a proper pacemaker programmer while you’re at the radiology dept and not use a remote monitoring unit). Just throwing a few guesses out there.
Maybe, I had just had cardiothoracic surgery, or three. Three entry locations as each effort failed then next one. Anyway, I had to instruct them on use of device. haha.
Company reps and hospital cardiac techs know their stuff particularly checking pacemakers and troubleshooting. Cardiac ward nurses are au fait with arrhythmias and recognising pacemaker problems but most would not be comfortable doing pacemaker checks and would not reprogram pacemakers without instructions from the doctor.
It’s nothing to do with those who can’t afford it, especially on AFF. That’s their personal choice to have the vax. You can argue for public funding of less important vaccines but you can’t argue against people opting to pay for a vaccine, as many did with shingles vax.The two are completely unrelated. Flying is at the top of Maslow hierarchy. First world problem. Basic health care isn’t. And I know I’m preaching to the converted.
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Of course. But to cast some negative connotation on those who simply can’t afford it and not because of poor prioritisation isn’t on either.
I'm not saying people who can afford it shouldn't have it. I'm suggesting that if on the pension or health care card it should be free. Like the over 65 flu vax.
No-one touches my settings or re-programs!
No , sorry, you missed my point.
