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Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by CryptoPunk on Sunday October 24, 2021 @05:38AM (#28976278)
Yes, deny hospitalization to unvaccinated people, at least in publicly funded hospitals. This is a much fairer way to deal with it than a mandate that forces people to vaccinate under duress.

And stop worrying about the unvaccinated transmitting to the vaccinated. The risk to the vaccinated is sufficiently low that it should not be a dominating concern any way. Also, vaccination doesn't stop COVID transmission enough to create herd immunity even at near 100% coverage, so we have to resign to COVID being endemic, especially given how rapidly a single strand RNA virus mutates.

The caveat is we could potentially eliminate COVID, influenza and a host of other viral infections, if we take the reigns off the pharmaceutical industry, by eliminating FDA approval requirements for vaccines. Machine learning has made enormous paradigm shifting breakthroughs in other fields, like natural language processing and protein folding, and could very well do the same for drug discovery and testing. Drug development could potentially keep up with the viral mutation rate if it could subsist solely on faster processes, and jettison the slower FDA mandated ones.

Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by wanderingmind on Sunday October 24, 2021 @08:00AM (#28977118)
Can we also start denying hospitals to smokers and drunk drivers and along the way stop treating kidney and liver issues for alcoholics. I'm not a fan of anti vaxxers, but this is a slippery slope that can truly create a hunger games outcome.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by thioordc on Sunday October 24, 2021 @10:25AM (#28978197)
It’s already down the slope! It’s wrong to deny people the care they need.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by CryptoPunk on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:46PM (#28983015)
Forcing people to get a vaccine to be able to procure a wide range of private services, including eating at a restaurant and attending a cinema, is a more slippery slope.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by pigeonhole123 on Sunday October 24, 2021 @09:40AM (#28977791)
Should non vaccinated still be paying taxes for treatment they can’t use? If I didn’t have to pay for you grandmas hospital stay I would gladly agree.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by CryptoPunk on Sunday October 24, 2021 @07:47PM (#28983028)
They can still use hospitals for non-COVID related stuff. I would purposely support making government healthcare program taxes/coverage opt-in, but that's less politically feasible than what I proposed.
Re:EU scientists reveal long-term brain damage caused by Covid by skinnymuch on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:43AM (#28978976)
Every one who pays taxes pays for some stuff they don’t like or benefit from.