Republican logic:
If you are vaccinated; you are protected. Why would you care is someone else chooses not to be vaccinated? It has to be a control issue.
They literally only care about themselves.
The framing around coronavirus has been a complete failure. Everything has focused on individual deaths due to COVID, "Do you want to die!", well the probability is low, "Do you want to kill Grandma!", and so on and so on.
Fatalities are real and they are important. I don't have the numbers but we've probably lost more children to COVID this year than to plane crashes, yet we buckle our seat belts on planes and watch water flotation videos for flights that don't cross any body of water.
I don't know if this framing would work - but there's an argument that could be made which is much more clear. 700k have died, hospitalizations are at least 3x that, let's say with an average stay of a week. Let's say 2 million hospitalizations, that's 80 million work hours lost. Say we cut it in half for older retired people, still 40 million. Even at 10 bucks and hour that's 400 million lost in wages, or employers/SSI covering it.
Then add in productivity losses stemming from delays in health care because hospitals are putting resources into COVID.
Then, even if you don't care about COVID, or worry about getting sick, there are people who do. And those people might remove themselves from the workforce, offices may close and be less productive. We discuss supply chain issues, let's say that a good chunk of those hospitalized persons are truck drivers or port workers, their lost productivity trickles up to companies down the line. Some people will eschew eating out and impact small businesses. etc...
No matter how you slice it, it's a massive economic issue to have a pandemic that keeps going, and going, and going.
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