08-31-2021, 12:32 PM
(08-31-2021, 12:04 PM)jeffster Wrote: I heard of a lady in BC who has some sort of illness that prevents her from getting a shot, and she's out of luck at doing anything with her family due to passport requirements.
This is not cool.
I don’t know exactly how it should work, but it seems pretty clear to me that in many settings it’s fine for a few unvaccinated people with bona fide medical exemptions to be present. As such they should be granted a passport through some appropriate approval process.
At the same time, it seems like there are probably settings (ICU?) where nobody at all should be present for any reason if they are unvaccinated. So the passport system needs to support at least 2 levels of restriction: restriction to people who are vaccinated or have an exemption; and restriction to vaccinated people only.
Of course, this implies that if the setting in question is a medical one, there has to be a separate one for unvaccinated patients. It would be absurd to suggest that a nurse with an exemption can’t come in to do their job, but an unvaccinated patient is A-OK.
Anyway, depending on how the numbers go, it might be necessary to de-prioritize treatment of unvaccinated Covid patients. Somebody with a severe condition that they didn’t mostly cause themselves needs to have precedence.