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by glogla
1685 days ago
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I think it's quite brilliant! Unvaccinated people hurt others by spreading the disease to the vulnerable and clogging the hospitals (at much higher rate than vaccinated). Turning this around and making it so that their unvaccinated status is hurting them too, seem like a great balancing act. And talk is cheap. I remember article about how police unions in whatever US city claimed that 10 000 police officers will quit if they have to get vaccinated. The mandate went through and the number who quit was 36 or so. If less than 1 % of antivaxxers really mean it, when push comes to shove, that means we can still save the world. But I also have no patience anymore, so I'm not the best role model of a delicate approach to those things. |
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I wonder what city this would be? Maybe LA? Chicago had to pause the mandate for law enforcement due to the union backlash.[1] New York lost ~9,000 public workers (not all police though) due to their mandate.[2]
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/02/police-vacci...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/01/new-york-cit...
>>>when push comes to shove, that means we can still save the world.
Except that the vaccine efficacy falls off of a cliff over time, so unless all 7 billion of us are gonna get boosters every 3 months, what is the real plan to "save the world"? If COVID is here to stay, at some point we need to add "COVID patients" to our baseline stats that drive our understanding of ICU bed requirements, and then just return to normal. At the very least "Asia normal" where people just understand to wear masks most of the day in crowded places.