Because people who are in the ICU because they refuse to get vaccinated are costing the taxpayer a shitload of money. I'd be all for "you can stay unvaccinated if you like, but you won't get an ICU bed if you get severe COVID", but that's a heavier hand than a passport.
That's ridiculous. We don't expect people to get flu vaccines before extending medical care. We don't even expect basic sexual hygiene and extend extremely expensive HIV treatments to people who have tempted fate much, much more seriously than skipping a vaccince.
It's a concerning precedent. These rights to travel, to enter a store and so on were never restricted before but now they may be.
What about me, should I risk shot number two now that I've seen a flame heme show up on a routine retina scan just yesterday and am reading that this is one of the things they are seeing increase from the AZ vaccine? Will I be limited in travel and employment if I don't?
Well in my country we don’t care because we’ll just borrow or print more and tax while we’re at it. I can’t count how many times Biden said “not spending enough”. So I guess I misspoke, we do care about how much we spend, but mostly that it’s as large as possible so we can use it as an excuse to increase taxes further.
