And if the choice is between ‘no indoor dining (or other X) for anyone’ and ‘no indoor dining (or other X) for the unvaccinated’ I know which one I’m choosing, and which one leaves me more free.
I agree that “no indoor dining for anyone” is worse than mandating vaccination for indoor dining. But I also don´t think the situation merits either. Protecting the immunocompromised and people that want but can´t get vaccinated doesn´t make up for the concerns.
Can you elaborate? If not mandating vaccination for indoor dining, then what?
Full disclosure, I’m actually not a big fan of vax passes either, but coming from the opposite end: I think vaccination should be mandatory across the board and backed up by very large fines, whether or not one chooses to enter public spaces. In my opinion this would actually be the minimally coercive approach, averaged over the entire population—since it doesn’t require everyone else to be constantly policing vaccination status.
Despite my reservations, if asked to pick a side I’ll always land on Team Vax Passport.
If not mandating vaccination for indoor dining, then what?
Even that minimally coercive approach you describe is pretty coercive; I don´t expect the benefits to outweigh the ugly side of making many tens of millions of people be injected with something they don´t like or trust or want. Some people are still getting convinced to get vaccinated just with time alone, and many other things could be done better to convince more people without more restrictions. I don´t know what to expand on without making this too long.
I agree that “no indoor dining for anyone” is worse than mandating vaccination for indoor dining. But I also don´t think the situation merits either. Protecting the immunocompromised and people that want but can´t get vaccinated doesn´t make up for the concerns.
Can you elaborate? If not mandating vaccination for indoor dining, then what?
Full disclosure, I’m actually not a big fan of vax passes either, but coming from the opposite end: I think vaccination should be mandatory across the board and backed up by very large fines, whether or not one chooses to enter public spaces. In my opinion this would actually be the minimally coercive approach, averaged over the entire population—since it doesn’t require everyone else to be constantly policing vaccination status.
Despite my reservations, if asked to pick a side I’ll always land on Team Vax Passport.
Even that minimally coercive approach you describe is pretty coercive; I don´t expect the benefits to outweigh the ugly side of making many tens of millions of people be injected with something they don´t like or trust or want. Some people are still getting convinced to get vaccinated just with time alone, and many other things could be done better to convince more people without more restrictions. I don´t know what to expand on without making this too long.
Sure, it’s coercive, but at least the scope of coercion is smaller (in terms of who is being coerced to do stuff)