Carrots and sticks

[bachophile]

Carrots for the vaccinated. Sticks for the rest of the unwashed masses. What happens when the vaccine rollout is too good.

And I’m all for it. You want to be a knucklehead, fine. But don’t come to my restaurant or school.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/world/middleeast/israel-covid-vaccine-reopen.html

[brenda]

Bach, is there a black market for fake green cards that look like the immunization cards?

[taiwan_girl]

@bachophile

I agree. The needs of society sometimes outweigh the wants of an individual. And if certain people feel their wants are more important, then there may be situations that do not work for them.

Insurance companies come to my mind about this.

You smoke? Pay higher rates. Or maybe we just dont insure you.

Be a drunk driver? Pay higher rates or maybe we just dont allow you to be insurance by us.

etc

[Copper]

@taiwan_girl said in Carrots and sticks:

I agree. The needs of society sometimes outweigh the wants of an individual.

But how do you weigh? What is the unit of measurement?

Society needs a healthy economy, without it there are no healthy people.

A lot of lives are ruined or ended by a bad economy. The shrinking pandemic is not the only evil.

[bachophile]

@brenda said in Carrots and sticks:

Bach, is there a black market for fake green cards that look like the immunization cards?

Actually big issue. The powers that be are putting in a lot of effort to insure no fakes. But people are people and there will always be those that try to profit one way or another.