Re “Anti-vaxxers ought to pay an precise value” (Aug. 28): A number of of your readers have provide you with ideas relating to individuals who refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Some recommend larger insurance coverage charges. Others recommend that individuals who refuse to get the shot after which get the virus be informed there aren’t any beds within the hospital.
Simply consider all of the well being issues this method might resolve. Increased insurance coverage charges or no hospital beds for people who smoke who get most cancers. The identical for overweight folks, in the event that they get a coronary heart drawback or diabetes. No hospital beds must be obtainable in the event that they want knee replacements as a result of all that weight ruined their knees. Come to think about it, I’ve learn that joggers do injury to their knees. Let’s add them to the record. What an exquisite technique to punish those that don’t comply with the rules we expect they need to.
Shoshana Egan
Clairemont
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