Re: ‘Hospital charges don’t make sense’, (Neville Hill, Times, Wednesday January 19).
I do not find Neville Hill persuasive in his argument against charging the unvaccinated for hospital care.
When Covid hits, the hospitals will be full; the unvaccinated disproportionately represented, to the detriment of the vaccinated – who have at least met their obligations – and everybody needing other care.
That is, there is a cost for this “freedom”, in funds and suffering.
We will beat Covid only when we reach herd immunity. Since the vaccines are very much less than 100 per cent effective and the immunity wanes quite quickly over time, this might mean as much as 99 per cent of the population to be immunised or post-infection.
In any functioning society, we all depend on other people.
Asking a smoker to stop smoking or an obese person to lose weight is a big ask. It requires sustained and difficult changes to lifestyle.
Expecting someone to spend a few moments being vaccinated is not much to ask, not of a rational person anyway. As for accidents, people are careless and foolish but generally accidents are just that – accidents.
Mr Hill claims it’s not the unvaccinated causing mutations and suggests doing your own ‘research’.
Aw yeah. The balance of informed opinion is very much ‘get vaccinated’. You, the people around you and the community will be safer.
If you prefer the views of contrarians and cranks, which confirm your antisocial beliefs, stay well away from the rest of us. In fact, hide in a cave.
Dennis Horne
Howick
