crbutler wrote:I’d be all for insurance be able to state if you refused the vaccine, then you must pay self pay for any care you get related to the disease. If we had personal responsibility for vaccine preventable illness, you’d be surprised how many would get the things.
Interesting thinking. Would you likewise support auto insurance companies to be able to state that if you refused to wear a helmet while driving, you must self pay for any care you receive relating to head injury suffered in a car accident? I think we would all have to agree that helmet use would greatly reduce the incidence and severity of car crash head injuries, thereby lowering overall insurance costs for all.
I am in my mid-40’s, and have no comorbidities. I exercise regularly, and manage my weight. I eat reasonably well, and I don’t drink or smoke. I don’t get sick very often. I look at the MN department of Health website pretty regularly, and I just can’t get myself too excited about the numbers of cases/deaths reported. The mortality rate is extremely low, then climbs as age increases. Not coincidentally, that is how death rates by any cause track. Every day you live brings you one closer to death, and old people die a lot more frequently than young people. I’ve known roughly a dozen people that have tested positive for Covid, with ages ranging from 20 to 76. Only one of them (age 24) had any symptoms more serious than regular cold/flu-type stuff, and several didn’t even realize they had it at all. I’m really not concerned at all by the possibility of getting this virus. If I do get it, it is almost statistically impossible that I suffer any serious effects from it. I’ve been sick plenty of times in my life, and while I don’t enjoy it, I’m not afraid of getting sick another time. I’d take the proper measures to avoid spreading it, do what I needed to do to recover, then come out the other side and get back on with my life. Based on the above, along with the unknown long-term effects, I am not interested in any vaccine at this point. That should be my choice, and no one else’s business. In theory, anyone who gets the vaccine will be immune from the virus, so why should anyone care whether I am vaccinated or not? And yet, people certainly will care.