A German doctor has said people who don't want to get the coronavirus vaccine should give up access to ventilators or access to intensive care if they get the virus.
Geneticist Wolfram Henn also reckons Covid-19 anti-vaxxers should carry a note that explains they don't want to be vaccinated against a pandemic.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Dr Henn said: "Whoever wants to refuse the vaccination outright, he should, please also always carry a document with the inscription: 'I don't want to be vaccinated! I want to leave the protection against the disease to others! I want, if I get sick, to leave my intensive care bed and ventilator to others."
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The doctor said it was perfectly fine for people to have concerns about a vaccine that has come around seemingly so fast.
He doesn't mind if there are those out there who have critical, well-researched issues that they wish to get answered.
The people he doesn't have time for are those who get their information from online groups on Facebook with no medical backing or source material for further reading.
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"I urgently recommend that these alarmists go to the nearest hospital and present their conspiracy theories to the doctors and nurses who have just come from the overcrowded intensive care unit completely exhausted," he said.
In a separate interview to Germany's WDR, Dr Henn explained that doctors will always treat people who are sick (unless they have a directive that states otherwise), including anti-vaxxers.
However, he wants those who are worried about the inoculation to realise that a lot of work has been done to ensure it's safe.
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"The speed didn't come at the expense of quality and safety. The speed was made possible on the one hand by the administrative acceleration in the approval process and on the other hand by the fact that the pace was accelerated with enormous - also state-funded - effort," he said.
"If you need 40,000 test subjects, then if there is no time pressure you can vaccinate 4,000 per year. Then you need ten years. Or - as it happened here - 40,000 within six months. There wasn't skimp on quality.
"It is perfectly clear that in the end no one will forego treatment in an emergency. The point is that people who are very critical very quickly and say what they are against should say what they are for instead. And if they turn against something, then they should really think through the consequences of their actions to the end."
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