Arch Guillotti
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When the pandemic was at it’s worst and the ICU was flooded and like a war zone almost every single patient that needed to be intubated was unvaccinated.As I have stated, I am vaccinated and believed in the efficacy of the vaccine from the outset. I encouraged and convinced many who were hesitant about the vaccine to get the vaccine. I still think it was the best decision. I am, however, not convinced that the pandemic could have been averted. It is like me thinking that if a 1000 (or a hundred thousand or a million or a hundred million) people simultaneously poured gallon bottles of water into the ocean that the salt concentration of the ocean was going to be appreciably affected or that the sea level would suddenly rise and flood cities.
This was a pandemic and the vaccine was brand new and untested. Hating people who had vaccine hesitancy did nothing to improve healthcare and only served to permanently break a lot of people in health care who developed hate and anger for those who would dare to take an opposing view to theirs. One hundred percent vaccination was never a real possibility and the pandemic was going to do what it did and it was going to impact all of us. There is no reason to hate your fellow humans who happened to not be at the same point of trust at the same time as you for a novel vaccine treatment to combat a global pandemic that you were.