That’s why I support any and all efforts to get more people vaccinated. Whether it’s directly mandated by the government like for Federal workers and hospitals that receive Medicare payments or by an individual business that decided to directly mandate vaccines on their own like Disney or eventually will indirectly because of the OSHA requirements. The best way to show the unvaccinated compassion is to nudge them towards helping themselves by getting the shot.
What about those living in complete and total poverty? Those without jobs, cars, electricity? What are you going to do to them? These are people who have feared the gov’t for generations, these are people with less than you could ever imagine. What do you do to them?
What percentage of the unvaccinated falls under this category? I think there’s more realistic and attainable places to focus.
It depends on the location.
If they feared the government for generations, how do they get the EBT cards? Don’t you have to deal with the government to get one?
I thought the goal was to get everyone vaccinated and punish those who don’t? How do you punish societies most crippled members? How are they not worth your thought and effort? Keep the context of the reply.
Survival.
I wouldn’t do anything to them. This isn’t about punishment. It’s possible to walk and chew gum at the same time. Just because there’s a plan around workplace mandates doesn‘t mean the plans to encourage people to be vaccinated just stop. There are still vaccine drives, community outreach programs and targeted vaccine clinics in community centers and neighborhood medical facilities where people may be more comfortable going. It’s been happening since day 1, continues today and will be needed the future.
That’s what the vaccine is for.
You are way off base. This has nothing to do with punishing anyone. That’s just BS political talking points. Getting people to take a vaccine that can save their life and help end the pandemic isn’t a punishment.
All true, but what about those that just don’t want the vaccine? You know they exist in those communities as well, right?
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Well of course. When a city reimplements a hard lockdown after only 20 to 30 cases and non essential travel is closed, you’re bound to keep cases down. The majority of their population is currently under lockdown.
Survival means something very different to people who haven’t eaten for days and who don’t have electricity to turn on their TVs or go argue on the Internet let alone a slice of bread.
As far as I am aware chances for the best outcome is how a hospital would decide who gets care and who does not get care when it is not possible to treat everyone. Any sort of equity weighting only works if those demographics are at play. Or it could just be first come, first serve which is what we’ve seen more play out where places fill up and stop taking people. This too disproportionately affects certain groups as they wait longer to seek care.
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The status quo wasn’t working. It was time to make a change and try something else. The additional workplace mandates will impact 100M people. Are there 100M homeless, jobless people without electricity? If we get to 85 or 90% vaccinated maybe that’s enough. We don’t need 100%. If it’s needed there are additional ways to get more people in. We could mandate vaccination to receive government assistance or offer additional stimulus money to encourage more vaccination. The point is that because there are some poor people who don’t want the vaccine is not a good reason to not encourage anyone else either.