12-26-2021, 08:59 PM
(12-26-2021, 08:44 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(12-26-2021, 04:45 PM)plam Wrote: There's another point, which is that stigma never helps. It didn't help with HIV, it doesn't help with COVID.
I don't think that it's inevitable. I can see a 50% population attack rate, but that is still a 50/50 chance of not having it.
Stigma over getting a disease is unhelpful.
Stigma over not getting vaccinated is different I think.
I don't think we have to stigmatize not being vaccinated. I do think that it is reasonable and indeed necessary, for public health reasons, to apply discrimination against people who are not vaccinated by choice. I don't actually want to share the air with such people. It's part of keeping the substantial majority of those of us who are vaccinated safe.
That only applies to those who have a choice, of course; I exclude under-5s for instance, since they don't have a choice.