Originally Posted by Riflehunter
Originally Posted by DBT
Subsidized? Our society has people who are overweight, drink too much, eat bad foods, smoke, etc, so if community subsidation of health cost is an issue, why single out those who are wary of newly developed vaccines, or object to it being compulsory?
Being overweight, drinking too much, eating bad foods, smoking is not highly infectious to other people unlike the Covid virus and there's a simple remedy that everyone has been strongly encouraged to take to reduce the likelihood of having caught the virus in the first place, coupled with an abnormal situation of a completely overloaded health system in a pandemic requiring rationing of services, beds etc. These three reasons together. I also think a greater cost should be borne by people with self-inflicted problems caused by smoking etc.

The point was about subsidizing life 'choices,' what is a burden on the public purse, not what is or isn't contagious. Besides that, vaccination doesn't prevent transmission of the virus.