Yes.
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Texas doesn’t have statewide guidelines for critical care and triage, which means that caregivers are left to their own local organizing. But tough times like the ones brought on by low vaccination rates and the delta variant require a re-examination of priors. This fourth wave of Covid hospitalizations differs from all the others, because almost everyone who is severely ill is also unvaccinated. In Texas, more than 12,800 people are in the hospital because of Covid-19, and between 93 and 98 percent of them are unvaccinated.
It’s tempting to blame this wave not on the virus but on the people who didn’t get their shots. “This has been bubbling up—this anger, this frustration, this fear, this worry. Every day, we’re seeing the ascent of the curve. Now it’s the steepest it’s ever been,” Fine says. “So I and the other leaders of the task force, we decided, you know, these numbers are not looking good. These questions are coming up."
Good comment. The fining thing is rough, but there does need to be something really unpleasant there at the end to motivate any hold outs.
If we tied another stimulus check in with getting vaccinated in Wave 1, I think you'd have the vast majority of people lining up. Want another $3k? get the shot.
I could see them trying to do a "if we get to a certain rate of vaccination, we will do another stimulus" that way it is not just restricting needed money. though the shaming and thus further sequestering wouldnt cease because of this; and the dems wouldnt dare give us money. Fines just feels like a recipe for disaster given our government and culture