And there's
this gem: "But the unvaccinated who get sick will take up more of the beds that
should go to people who made the other right choice." So, obese people
(the number-one comorbidity for Covid) who choose to over-indulge in demon
sugar should be thrown out of restaurants and their jobs because they might
get sick and take up the beds reserved for virtuous Covid patients. Or
drug addicts, who choose to fill up their bodies with substances they know are
harmful. And, definitely, if Dr. Fauci/Pfizer produces an AIDS vaccine--which he
already wasted time
trying to do while ignoring other therapies--any gay man who declines to take it
should be fired from his job and exiled from society because he might
get sick. Maybe he should even be refused treatment if he does. Plague
carrier! Why not start now with gay men who choose not to use condoms? They
know the risks they are choosing to take. Must be fired from their jobs for possibly
taking up the bed reserved for safe-sex practitioners. That's the version
of a scientifically-justified ethico-political argument people--including
leftists--want to make?
There is a basic category error at the heart of discriminatory pass-law thinking. As Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins says: "instead of talking about the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, we should be talking about the immune and the non-immune."
It's not the person--vaccinated or unvaccinated--who is the danger to society; it's the virus. It's not the distinction between vaccinated and unvaccinated that's important; it's the distinction between immune/non-infectious and non-immune/infectious.
Though we're encouraged to think otherwise, in any circumstance, the term "vaccinated" does not necessarily mean "immune" or "non-infectious," and "unvaccinated" does not mean "sick" or "infectious" and does include people who are "immune." These are false and harmful equations.
It's not "the unvaccinated" who get sick; it's the non-immune. It's not "the unvaccinated" who infect other people; it's the infectious. In this case, because the vaccine does not prevent people from being infected or infectious, vaccinated people are not completely immune from the disease and are potentially infectious. And, crucially, as is always the case, many--likely most--unvaccinated people are not sick or infectious and may never become so, and many are immune.
Treating the "unvaccinated"--which includes people who have never been infected, people who have recovered from infection and have stronger, longer-lasting immunity (the most helpful kind for herd immunity), people who can't be vaccinated, and people who choose not to be vaccinated--as an undifferentiated mass of "plague carriers" is scientifically misleading and ethico-politically pernicious. As history has taught us.
The notion that, just because they are "unvaccinated," people deserve to be punished--by being exiled from society or not receiving medical treatment if they do get sick--should be firmly rejected, especially by leftists. (Maybe just, you know, people who get sick for whatever reason should get healthcare, period.)
If you want to follow the science rigorously, you distinguish between the immune/non-infectious and the non-immune/infectious, not between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
That task no more requires "protect[ing] vaccinated workers from unvaccinated coworkers" than the reverse. If Joe Biden and the public-health authorities really wanted to do the scientifically effective and ethico-politically fair thing, they would require everyone to be constantly tested before entering the workplace, vaccinated or not, because everyone who is vaccinated can also be infected and infectious. If, on the other hand, they want to sell as many profitable vaccines as possible...
So, there is no science or politico-ethical logic behind those eager-to-discriminate talking points used to justify vaccine mandates and passports. It is scientific nonsense.
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