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No. The state is protecting itself — that is, its healthcare system — from the unvaccinated.
by moistly 5y ago
No. The state is protecting itself — that is, its healthcare system — from the unvaccinated.
- tinus_hn 5y agoA common excuse for the same thing. Why wouldn’t this apply to prohibiting fast food or alcohol? The only reasons it’s not used for that is that we’ve had fast food and alcohol forever and nobody would buy the nanny state using that argument.
- moistly 5y agoWe do apply it. There are educational advertising programs to influence dietary and drug choices, there are taxes applied to discourage use and offset costs, there are treatment programs, safe injection programs—the government uses all sorts of tools to reduce healthcare costs. Again, it’s not protecting people from themselves, it’s protecting the government from skyrocketing costs. We used to round up lepers and the tuberculosis-inflicted because they were too damn expensive to keep around. Also, whatever whatever is irrelevant to the claims made in GP: basic elementary school math tells you to get vaccinated, mandates or not.
- tinus_hn 5y agoTell me, how many 13 year olds end up filling these expensive hospital beds due to COVID?