SaraM wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:46 am
Can you explain how, exactly, you think covid passes for the vaccinated will achieve what you claim? Can you see no unintended consequences (from the point of view of those using this system)?
Businesses have to be open to pay their loans/ mortgages, employees need to work to do the same and the state needs tax rolling in to pay for the basic services they provide for their citizens.
Without vaccinations none of the above could happen, it would be varying degrees of ongoing lockdowns. So once you run with the idea of vaccinations then you have to have a system where gatherings of people can be allowed without them being spreader events for people who could get very sick and end up in hospital. The only way to do this is by only allowing people who can show they are vaccinated to be part of these gatherings. That is what the vaccination cert allows.
In that setting you can have groups back in pubs/cinemas/theatres and the economy gets going again without a surge in hospitalisations. This is what threatens the quality of care everyone gets in the health service.
The other way around certs/passes is that a level of vaccination of the population is hit which means that the health system could manage the number of hospitalisations that could occur amongst the unvaccinated and those that are vaccinated and still end up in hospital. I think that number would want to be north of 96% of the population - stand to be corrected on that.
There are unintended consequences in everything we do. I’m not sure which specific ones you are referring to, as by definition that could be an endless list. What has to be remembered though is that any government will be damned firstly for ignoring obvious consequences which could be fatal for their citizens or their economy by not doing something.