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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Maybe applying Darwin's theory would resolve anti-vaxer's problem?

I saw this article in today's San Diego Union Tribune. Singapore is going to require anti-vaxers to pay for care should they be infected with Covid. Below is the text of it: Singapore won’t pay COVID costs for some Singapore will no longer cover the medical costs of COVID-19 patients who are eligible to get vaccinated against the virus but choose not to, the country’s Health Ministry says. “We will begin charging COVID-19 patients who are unvaccinated by choice,” starting Dec. 8, the ministry said in a statement Monday. Those who are not eligible for the shots will be exempt from the rule, it said, including children younger than 12 and people with certain medical conditions. The announcement came as the number of severe cases, which have been mainly among unvaccinated people, has stabilized but remains high, the ministry said. Of about 280 intensive-care beds for COVID patients, 134 are occupied, and most are among those not vaccinated, a senior minister of state, Janil Puthucheary, said at a news conference. Would a similar policy in the US make sense? Why should an insurance company (or the Government) pay the high cost of medical care for someone who blatently ignores medical advice? It isn't clear to me why the anti-Covid vaccination people believe what they do. These vaccines appear to have been tested more thoroughly than any of the previous ones, and also seem to perform better. I've never heard that same group protest against the huge series of vaccinations that we all get routinely -- Diptheria, pertussis, typhus, tetanus, polio, flu, smallpox, pneumonia, measels, mumps, rubella, varicella, menangitis, hepatitis, etc. Yes, they were all tested, but not with the latest technology, and their efficacy was not as high as the Moderna and Pfizer vaccine is against Covid. Maybe if the people who refused the vaccine were also refused from receiving care, future generations would not have to deal with this sort of distorted logic?