# Shame on those that refuse the vaccine

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shame-on-those-that-refuse-the-vaccine/946870
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 20, 2021, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shame-on-those-that-refuse-the-vaccine/946870 "2021-07-20T01:15:52Z")
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### Author: ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shame-on-those-that-refuse-the-vaccine/946870/1206 "2021-12-01T01:01:37Z")

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[I was in the ER for the second time over the holiday weekend](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-very-sick/955082) – first time was likely unrelated to [my eventual diagnosis of a prostate infection](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-very-sick/955082/21) – and could hear a patient being treated in the exam bay behind mine.

Keeping my thoughts together is still a bit difficult.

So, there’s me and this other patient whose first language is obviously Spanish, given that ER staff asked if he wanted a translator, in separate ER bays which share a back wall. ER staff was going through the intake questionnaire and got down to “Are you vaccinated for COVID?” I didn’t quite catch the answer but it was obviously in the negative, given the staff’s incredulous “Why not? Religion? Doctor said not to? What?” I didn’t hear much else.

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