[66fm472tjy7]

I would have preferred giving lower priority in hospitals to voluntarily unvaccinated persons seeking COVID treatment. That would require no violation of personal freedoms and avoid the great economic cost of implementing a lockdown at the start of the touristic winter season at the cost of letting these people suffer the consequences of their belief that the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease.

[soco]

A blanket measure (mandate something for all) is always easier to rationalize than a targeted measure (in this case, denying a person hospital admission). So while some politicians will agree with your spirit, they won't be thrilled to implement it.

[niklasbuschmann]

Ethics aside, any law determining the priority of hospital admissions based on non-medical reasons is unconstitutional in Germany, according to legal experts. I doubt the situation differs much in Austria.

But I agree, this might be the most freedom-preserving path.

[summerlight]

> any law determining the priority of hospital admissions based on non-medical reasons is unconstitutional in Germany

Isn't vaccination status a medical reason? In fact, triage based on vaccination status is seriously discussed in many hospitals. It's because we don't have many effective treatments for COVID-19 patients other than simple symptomatic therapy (yet) and vaccinated covid-19 patients have a much higher chance to be recovered from ICU, and generally within a shorter period.

[sleavey]

While we're at it, let's give lower priority to obese, smokers, alcoholics... or let's not. It's a slippery slope to start discriminating against people based on whether the admitting staff think they're worthy of treatment or not. We're better than that.