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Yeah I saw that. I guess my point is it's a dangerous path to go down, using access to care that has a public health benefit as a punishment to some. It just ends up hurting everyone in the end.

I wish everyone would get vaccinated. But they're not, and there's breakthrough cases (this has happened to multiple people I know personally).

I guess I see this in the opposite way as intended: why should an adult who's been vaccinated be punished in trying to get tested, as a side effect of trying to punish someone who hasn't?

This virus is a moving target. The test doesn't just benefit the person tested.

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Yeah - mostly agree.

> I guess I see this in the opposite way as intended: why should an adult who's been vaccinated be punished in trying to get tested, as a side effect of trying to punish someone who hasn't?

From my experience vaccinated people don't bother testing them selves - and I can totally relate as a fully vaccinated person.

The risk of spreading the virus as a FFP2 wearing vaccinated human seems to be so low that I personally tend to not care much.

What bothers me is that we as German citizens have the rare opportunity to get vaccinated and get back to a more normal life - but it seems like only ~60% are really interested in getting the shot. Right now we have too much vaccine doses and actually giving them to other countries (at least).

People just not going to their vaccination appointments, or cancelling due to a barber appointment, ..

This saddens me. I somehow thought the idiot ratio is lower. The pandemic was eye opening in that regard.

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I don’t see it really as punishment, just prioritization of public funds which is normal when it comes to socialized healthcare.

The virus may be a moving target, but all governments have shown that they are willing to fund public safety against infection. If circumstances change, we may have to return to free and widespread testing, but the hope is that vaccination can drive the active infection rate to 0 which is something that all our measures for the past year have been unable to do.

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