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It primarily comes down to resources and cost. Right now in Ontario 80% of covid cases are coming from non fully vaccinated individuals(1). It costs $23k to t
by dmalik 5y ago
It primarily comes down to resources and cost.
Right now in Ontario 80% of covid cases are coming from non fully vaccinated individuals(1).
It costs $23k to treat a covid patient and $50k if they reach the ICU(2). Chances of not landing in the ICU are 99.9% if you're fully vaccinated(3).
Many health resources are going to treat covid instead of things like elective surgeries. Allowing non-essential businesses to fully open without a vaccine passport will only lead to more cases and more resources being wasted.
The thought of getting injured right now is scary because I could wait years for something like a herniated disc surgery (which is very debilitating). I'd much prefer we take steps to take as much strain off the health system as we can.
1 - https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-logs-600-new-covid-19-cases-as-province-reaches-new-vaccine-milestone-1.5583152 https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-logs-600-new-covid-19-cas...
2 - https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cihi-covid19-canada-hospital-cost-1.6168531 https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cihi-covid19-canada-hospital-...
3 - https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/health/fully-vaccinated-people-breakthrough-hospitalization-death/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/health/fully-vaccinated-peopl...
- 908B64B197 5y ago> The thought of getting injured right now is scary because I could wait years for something like a herniated disc surgery (which is very debilitating). And yet how much do you pay year after year for healthcare via taxes?
- dmalik 5y ago> And yet how much do you pay year after year for healthcare via taxes? 11.5% of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP). $265.5 billion, or $ 7064 per person. Imagine that will go up with covid... https://www.cihi.ca/en/health-spending https://www.cihi.ca/en/health-spending
- ksaj 5y agoI'm also from Canada. We pay the same amount despite the fact that we are in mid-pandemic. Therefore resources are allotted to dealing with the large number of Covid cases that end up in ICU. This isn't a case of being "short changed" with our taxes. This is a case of large groups of people needlessly filling the emergency wards when there are clearer options that are easier on the population as a whole.