The punishment actually scales quite naturally to the crime, because you’re most likely to get caught if you contract Covid, or—worse—cause an outbreak. In the event of an outbreak, contact tracers are allowed to verify who’s vaccinated, inspect security cameras, etc. So the ability to practically enforce the mandate is commensurate with the degree of harm caused.
Canada (where I live) has QR codes that are scanned to verify your vaccination, you can’t avoid a mandate by just lying and risking to get caught if you cause an outbreak. But in fact, I don’t think you should get fired even if you do cause an outbreak, the death-rate of covid in a world with current vaccination levels is just not enough to warrant such a drastic punishment. Things would be different if no one was voluntarily taking the vaccine, and things would be different if covid had a 10x or 100x higher death rate.
The punishment actually scales quite naturally to the crime, because you’re most likely to get caught if you contract Covid, or—worse—cause an outbreak. In the event of an outbreak, contact tracers are allowed to verify who’s vaccinated, inspect security cameras, etc. So the ability to practically enforce the mandate is commensurate with the degree of harm caused.
Canada (where I live) has QR codes that are scanned to verify your vaccination, you can’t avoid a mandate by just lying and risking to get caught if you cause an outbreak. But in fact, I don’t think you should get fired even if you do cause an outbreak, the death-rate of covid in a world with current vaccination levels is just not enough to warrant such a drastic punishment. Things would be different if no one was voluntarily taking the vaccine, and things would be different if covid had a 10x or 100x higher death rate.
OK, I’ll revise. Should you be fired if you lie about your vaccination status and cause a deadly outbreak?