The only exceptions: healthcare and justice
Let’s dare, for real. In 2022, grocery stores, pharmacies and hardware stores deliver to homes and online commerce allows you to get everything you need. So I have a very simple solution to get closer to compulsory vaccination: prohibition of access to all public places for the unvaccinated except clinics, hospitals and courthouses, because access to health care and justice is fundamental in our society. By doing so, there would be very few exceptions to deal with and, as the President of France said, we would piss off the unvaccinated, who would finally come to understand common sense. Right now, the unvaccinated are outright taking the health and lives of Quebecers hostage by clogging our hospitals, at the expense of society as a whole. That’s enough, the silliness. Our freedom ends where that of others begins.
Martin Lalonde, Rosemere
Incomprehension
I admit that, like many others, I have a great deal of difficulty understanding why it is acceptable to withhold care or surgery from people on waiting lists, but not those who contract COVID. -19 by negligence or by refusal to be vaccinated. Could our politicians explain it to us?
Hugues Vézina
Fed up
I totally agree with you. All options could be applied simultaneously. I find it absurd that this minority represents the majority of hospitalized cases. My partner has been on a waiting list for a complete knee replacement for too long. Will her surgery be postponed yet again because of these selfish people? As for me, I would go one step further by requiring a bi-weekly drug test for work and home confinement the rest of the time. They would only have to order from the grocery store or online pharmacy, like those who need to be confined after testing positive. I’m fed up. It is time for the government to put its pants on. Thus, Mr. Legault will not have to hire Denis Coderre to be less loved!
Isabelle Gauthier
Financial contribution
Maybe not compulsory vaccination, but there needs to be a minimum financial contribution to the health system by the unvaccinated. A very convincing way to make people think.
Yvan Sauvageau
Thank you
A short text, but balanced and filled with good ideas, such as the symbolic bill and penalties for those who adopt dangerous behavior. Thanks for writing about it! It hurts my social contract when I see people being deliberately heavy on society and demanding health care as if everything is their due. Failing to adopt a user-pays mode, because bad luck (for example, cancer) can befall everyone, a method that comes close to the concept of insurance (overtaxing junk food, and here, directly non-vaccinated) and which takes into account the risks seems to me a priori fairly fair.
Pascal Bruneau
From the start
If vaccination against COVID-19 had been mandatory from the start of the rampant spread, I think city life would be much more pleasant at the start of 2022.
Dominique bourhis
What society ?
I agree with compulsory vaccination, but I’m starting to wince when people say, and I quote you: “We don’t want to refuse to treat the unvaccinated either. It would not be worthy of the democracy in which we live. M. Legault also said so. But what kind of society are we defending here? A company that allows a minority to prevent urgent operations. Which prevents me from visiting my mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s. Who prevents my grandchildren from going to school. Who exactly benefits this “democratic” society? Currently, it does not reflect the values it claims to represent.
Ghislaine St-Sauveur, Montreal
Consent
Okay, but how many doses will it take to be adequately vaccinated: 3, 4, 5, maybe more? It was supposed to be 2, and soon it will be 3. Israel gives the 4e dose to the most vulnerable at this time. This is why I ask myself the questions: will it stop? Isn’t that big nonsense? It gives the impression that the authorities are taking measures for a semblance of security. Two years later, with a 90% vaccinated population, we are at the same starting point. Consent is an important concept in medicine. Everyone forgets it in politics. Allow me to doubt all these measures and restrictions …
Karine Ferland
Aberrant and stunning
It is really absurd. Being a Social Democrat by conviction, I am shocked. So outraged at how irresponsible some people are. Even more when I learn how much hospitalization costs for COVID-19. It is astounding. It seems to me very relevant and necessary to price these irresponsible people. The path of a mandatory and substantial health tax (over $ 2,000) for the unvaccinated, even for those who do not pay tax, should be taken.
Serge Roy
Too little, too late
You are absolutely right… except in the last words of your article! The cleavage, it is the unvaccinated themselves who created it. Social inequity is affected by cancer patients. They may die in a few months when they are deprived of their treatment today because of stubborn, irresponsible and selfish people. We should have been firmer with these people for a long time. So yes, it is about time for action to be taken, even if what is being announced is too little, too late! I would have opted for them to bear the cost of their care, at least in part.
Evelyne millien
Awareness
One thing jumps out at me: you talk about hospital bills. In my opinion, it would only be normal to receive (at least once a year) a kind of statement of account of your health insurance card, in order to be aware of the cost of hospitalization. Just like a credit card. Imagine your credit card with no way to check your transactions and your balance.
Marc Bouchard
Participation
I agree to the participation of the unvaccinated. For me, demerit points already exist for those who do not respect the rules of the Highway Code. It is the law and it does not interfere with individual freedom.
Gaétan Slater, Bromont
Rights and duties
It is clear that we all have to contribute to society, and we not only have rights, but also duties! I am in favor of compulsory vaccination, just like wearing a seat belt or having the car headlights on at night.
Claire Benard