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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by wyager on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:37PM (#28753126)
> From an economics perspective, people choosing to avoid vaccinations adopt a stance that exacerbates a public health risk

So do people choosing to leave their house. There are certain classes of externalities that society has chosen not to explicitly internalize, such as those imposed by living a normal life.

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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by tomrod on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:20PM (#28753632)
Which, moving forward, will probably mean being vaccinated for COVID.
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Re:New York's largest healthcare provider fires 1,400 unvacc... by wyager on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:26PM (#28762551)
Maybe, but don’t pretend you’re arguing from a purely economic basis, unless you’re also willing to punish people for ever leaving their house.

You’re also missing the higher-order issue of internalization overhead, but that’s a whole separate consideration.

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