Willfully unvaccinated should pay 100% of Covid hospital bills, lawmaker says

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8 points·rbanffy··5 comments

There are many diseases people are more likely to get as a result of lifestyle choices, such as heart disease, lung cancer, and AIDS. I don't see why only people who are irresponsible about covid should be singled out.

>I don't see why only people who are irresponsible about covid should be singled out.

Because they're the ones deliberately driving up the cost of COVID care, prolonging the epidemic and undermining the effectiveness of countermeasures, not smokers or big eaters.

Charging people for the societal cost of their bad decisions isn't a novel concept, see "sin taxes" on tobacco and alcohol[0]. I think a "tax" on willful stupidity in this case is entirely appropriate.

[0]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sin_tax.asp

>Because they're the ones deliberately driving up the cost of __DISEASE__ care This applies for any disease that implies a lack of self-care, not only for covid.

>prolonging the epidemic and undermining the effectiveness of countermeasures Even in countries with very high rate of vaccination the virus keep spreading pretty fast, even the OMS has said that vaccination does not stops the virus.

None of this two assertions is true.

They shouldn't be in the hospital in the first place.

For the most part, they aren't.

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