How Singapore deals with unvaccinated Covid patients who end up in the hospital

[ShazzieB]

23. "Q: It's my choice to not get vaccinated. Why should I be penalised for this?"

A: Because your "choice" not to get vaccinated penalizes everyone around you and society as a whole, knucklehead.

"Thus, there is an argument from a human rights perspective for the freedom from harm caused by others, an equivalent argument for why it is illegal to drink and drive," it said.

I really like the analogy of drinking and driving as an individual choice that can cause a tremendous amount of harm to others. I think most people can understand that on some level. (Even drunks who decide to drive under the influence can understand it in theory; they just think it doesn't apply to them because they are delusional about how impaired they actually are.)

The concept of doing something for the collective good breaks down if people start to make decisions based only on their individual beliefs, it said.

Unfortunately, I think covid has made it painfully clear that the idea of doing something "for the public good" is a completely alien concept for way too many people. Futhermore, if someone has made it to adulthood without acquiring an understanding of that, educating them out of it is probably a lost cause in most cases.

The people who resist vaccination, like those who worship TFG are very literal minded and only see what's right in front of their faces. They don't understand statistics or probabiity, so the idea that they are "more likely" to get seriously ill, need hospital care, or even die means nothing to them. They can only understand direct cause and effect, and immediate repercussions, not theoretical ones. Since not every unvaxxed person gets covid and not every person who gets covid becomes catastrophically ill and/or dies, they simply assume that THEY won't be one of the ones who do. The possibility of infecting others and contributing to the spread of the disease is even more meaningless to them.

How the hell do you get through to people like that? Damned if I know.