Irwin
Well-known Member
- Location
- Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
According to this model, it is stupid to refuse to get vaccinated based on your political beliefs:
The anti-vaxxers are incurring losses to themselves and to others.
The anti-vaxxers are incurring losses to themselves and to others.
- The losses to themselves occur when they lose their jobs, are ostracized or condemned for their actions, or when they get sicker than they would have if they had been vaccinated.
- The losses to others occurs when they do get infected and can spread the virus more precipitously than the fully vaccinated, when they're hospitalized and overloading medical resources, because of the harm they're doing to the economy in preventing effective management of the pandemic, and because of the costs of treatment that will need to be paid some day.