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Technically, lockdowns before vaccines were available were also lockdowns only for unvaccinated people. There just weren't any vaccinated ones. Pedantry, I kno
by glogla 5y ago
Technically, lockdowns before vaccines were available were also lockdowns only for unvaccinated people. There just weren't any vaccinated ones.
Pedantry, I know, but this is HN.
- fwn 5y agoNaming a difference is not an argument in favour of sameness. The availability of a vaccine is one of the several ways in which the current Austrian policy is different from earlier lockdowns. This alone already has direct consequences for the political justification of the policy: In the article OP linked they specifically name vaccination nudges as one of the effects they expect from their conditional lockdown. Which is something that would not have made sense in the absence of vaccines. Pedantry can have it's upside though, so I'm not complaining! :)