Make the unvaccinated pay for their deadly decision is an excellent CNN article supporting the idea that now the unvaccinated have to pay for the burden they are placing on the rest of us, the medical system and and our economy.
The author John Banzhaf III
“led the successful movement to ban smoking in workplaces and public places and championed requiring smokers and the tobacco industry to pay their fair share of the costs of smoking”
The article draws very relevant and strong parallels with the efforts to ban smoking and the effects that smoking has on non smokers.
His three main points are:
1. Vaccine refusers should pay more for life and health insurance, just as smokers have long done. For example, Delta Air Lines announced this week that beginning in November,
it will charge its unvaccinated employees up to $200 a month more for health insurance, and also limit the number of sick days unvaccinated employees may take if they contract Covid-19.
2. Where unvaccinated workers, students or others are required to be tested frequently, they and no one else should bear the cost of testing.
3. If the unvaccinated want to get hotel rooms or board cruise ships or fly on airplanes, they should have to pay more to cover the additional costs of thoroughly cleaning and sanitizing the places they may infect. They should also be charged more because of the added burdens associated with requiring all airlines, bus and train passengers to be masked.
Those who are vaccinated are still paying the price of the "epidemic of the unvaccinated."
Unfortunately,the party of personal liberty and responsibility has completely abandoned any responsibility for their freedom to refuse a vaccination.
The costs that the rest of us must bear include among other items he lists are: the incalculable additional costs of lock-downs, disruption of schooling now and to come, and Americans desperately trying to pay for rent and food.
I think this will be the first shot across the bow, as businesses, government leaders (at least those not batshit crazy about killing their own constituents) and most importantly insurance/ healthcare providers begin to require that some one other than all taxpayers begin to pay for reckless and negligent behaviors.