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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
What motivation/reward is there for a government to mandate measles vaccine passports unless there's imminent harm? Why would any politician risk blowback for that?????? I just don't understand the slippery slope argument when we're already on the slope, just in a different spot and we move up and down on it constantly.
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Bad flu seasons can already put health care capacity under such strain that surgeries are cancelled. Only about 40 per cent of Canadians get a flu vaccine in any given year. Since covid is likely to become endemic, we should expect that some years flu + covid cases will threaten to overwhelm health care capacity.
If cancelled surgeries is the trip-wire for enacting measures intended to increase vaccinations and reduce community spread in 2021, why wouldn’t we expect that to hold true in 2023 or 2026?
This all needs to be considered in the context of a Canadian health care system that routinely operates at 95 per cent to 100+ per cent capacity, with an aging population that will only put greater pressure on resources going forward.