Also, the US still has a very poorly designed system to promote herd immunity. Basically, you are charging people to contribute to herd immunity, rather than paying people to contribute to herd immunity.
COVID isn't even some "perfect bug" that maximizes the strategic/policy failures of US healthcare and preys on our self-interest. It's a very very mild pandemic compared to 20-40% death rate pandemics of yore. Maybe a death rate at those levels would spur "healthcare consumer self-interest" to vaccinate... but if there was an outright 3% death rate, would people's behavior change? 5%? 10%?
And for god sakes, stop letting perfect be the enemy of good. "Herd Immunity" isn't necessarily 100% resistance. We can achieve a great reduction with vaccinations even if it isn't perfect.
Edit: I was reading that I would be charged a 40-100$ administration fee. I guess that is being charged back to the government.
"Vaccine hesitancy" is the term for antivaxxers plus people who would not refuse in principle, but prefer to wait for more results, are too lazy or something like that.
The high death rate of pandemics of yore is also due to the healthcare system of yore being shit. You just couldn't properly ventilate people during the spanish flu, not to speak of ECMO or useful drugs like cortical steroids. I would guess that of those people hospitalized for COVID-19, at least half would have died back then. Of those put on a ventilator nowadays, all would have died back then. And hospitalization rates would maybe also have been higher, because where nowadays the doc sends you back to home quarantine with an asthma inhaler, back then they could just watch you suffocate...
What is your argument here? The US has a poorly designed system for herd immunity? Free shots, huge supply, most shots given in the world, one of the highest vaccination rates in the world?
Is that anti-vaxxers / laziness?
Also, the US still has a very poorly designed system to promote herd immunity. Basically, you are charging people to contribute to herd immunity, rather than paying people to contribute to herd immunity.
COVID isn't even some "perfect bug" that maximizes the strategic/policy failures of US healthcare and preys on our self-interest. It's a very very mild pandemic compared to 20-40% death rate pandemics of yore. Maybe a death rate at those levels would spur "healthcare consumer self-interest" to vaccinate... but if there was an outright 3% death rate, would people's behavior change? 5%? 10%?
And for god sakes, stop letting perfect be the enemy of good. "Herd Immunity" isn't necessarily 100% resistance. We can achieve a great reduction with vaccinations even if it isn't perfect.
Edit: I was reading that I would be charged a 40-100$ administration fee. I guess that is being charged back to the government.
... this time.