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They still fill up and cripple the hospitals.

Well maybe hospitals should start charging more for specifically covid admissions. Nothing like an economic/financial incentive to get vaccinated.

On top of that though, this doesn't seem like a long term concern. Eventually enough people will have natural immunity or vaccinated immunity that it's not really possible to overwhelm hospitals like it was when the virus was totally novel.

Never going to happen, but yes, I’d love to see the NHS sue the people who didn’t get the vaccine and didn’t have an exemption for costs.

Here in America we get sued regardless, its called the bill. Many many many people are effectively uncovered from covid bills regardless of their insurance. My daughters 7k bill from early 2020 says so (less than 1 day of treatment!! No outpatient or take home drugs!!). Now I can't say for sure whether she had covid but she received exactly the emergency treatment I've come to see is used in covid ICU, so the bills ought to be the same.

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