The following report is from Global News:
Nearly a year after COVID vaccines became freely available in the U.S., one fourth of American adults remain unvaccinated, and a picture of the economic cost of vaccine hesitancy is emerging. It points to financial risk for individuals, companies and publicly funded programs.
Vaccine hesitancy likely already accounts for tens of billions of dollars in preventable U.S. hospitalization costs and up to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths, say public health experts.
For individuals forgoing vaccination, the risks can include layoffs and ineligibility to collect unemployment, higher insurance premiums, growing out-of-pocket medical costs or loss of academic scholarships.
For employers, vaccine hesitancy can contribute to short-staffed workplaces. For taxpayers, it could mean a financial drain on programs such as Medicare, which provides health care for seniors.
Some employers are looking to pass along a risk premium to unvaccinated workers, not unlike how smokers can be required to pay higher health premiums. One airline said it will charge unvaccinated workers $200 extra a month in insurance.
When the vaccines emerged it seemed like everyone wanted one and the big question was how long it would take to meet the demand. It didn’t occur to me that, a year later, we’d be studying the cost of people not wanting the vaccines.
Said Kosali Simon, a professor of health economics at Indiana University.
Alicia Royce, a 38-year-old special education teacher in Coachella, California, opted out of getting the COVID vaccine or having her two vaccine-eligible children get it. Royce’s parents got the shots, but she has been concerned by issues including reports of adverse reactions.
The decision puts Royce in a delicate spot. Her school, like others in California, began a vaccine mandate for staff last year. For now, Royce has a religious exemption and gets tested for COVID twice a week before entering the classroom. The situation has prompted her family to plan a move to Alabama, where schools have not imposed mandates, after the school year.
I’ll get paid less. But I’m moving for my own personal freedom to choose.
Said Royce, who expects to take a $40,000-a-year pay cut.
Preventable Care, Billions In Costs
As the pandemic enters its third year, the number of U.S. patients hospitalized with COVID is near a 17-month low. Most Americans are vaccinated, and the country is regaining a semblance of normalcy, even as authorities predict a coming uptick in infections from the BA.2 sub-variant.
Yet as millions return to offices, public transportation and other social settings, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures show nearly 25% of U.S. adults haven’t been fully vaccinated, and the latest data suggests many holdouts won’t be easily swayed: The number of people seeking a first COVID vaccine in the U.S. has fallen to 14-month lows.
Vaccines have proven to be a powerful tool against the virus. CDC figures from 2021’s Delta wave found that unvaccinated Americans had four times greater risk of being infected, and nearly 13 times higher risk of death from COVID.
The disparities were even greater for those who received booster shots, who were 53 times less likely to die from COVID. Less than half of the country’s vaccinated population has so far received a booster.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
Proverbs 11:9
And in a week or so they’ll be blaming the unvaccinated for Russia-Ukraine, too!
From my point of view, this seems like the media is signaling that this new segregated society of the vaxxed and unvaxxed is about ready to further advance; with companies, namely healthcare providers, insurance companies, those in the hospitality sector, and others – are going to start ratcheting up their fees for the unvaxxed, or just prohibit them from their products or services outright. And this would be done in tandem with a vaccine passport perhaps?
The U.S. Is Quietly Rolling Out A Vaccine Passport In Both Red And Blue States
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Psalm 79:4
4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
These people in power have no shame nor conscience at all. In truth as the bible says, they have seared their conscience with a hot iron.
https://archive.org/details/DasNetz_LutzDammbeck
They have for a long time working on making a ‘authoritarian personality’ or ‘world citizen’….through mind control and cybernetics.
Interesting documentary.