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Being in hospital isn't exactly fun times.
And healthcare here is free at the point of entry, while I totally agree with that, isn't not that like the USA it also bankrupts you, we all pay for everyone.
So it is therefore I think a societal issue as well if people don't get vaccinated, do not test themselves and behave like COVID isn't a thing. Then pass it on etc etc.
Of course USA healthcare bankruptcy is also a societal issue, just that this language of "personal responsibility" is usually in a context of "small government, pay for everything yourself, society is overrated, NHS needs to go" but perhaps you don't mean it that way.
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Should have edited to replace "tertiary.." with "implications for the NHS"..
How we fund healthcare is a separate complex problem and I think our free at point NHS has shown its strength in COVID times.
I'm very sceptical about notions of common good as I believe we are all fairly venal selfish creatures evolved to care about our immediate surroundings.
hurricane_run
That chart (and the news from France) does raise the question that @rodan talked about above, the personal v societal responsibility that we all have. Vaccination (and general herd immunity) has done little to minimise the explosion in transmission in the UK. The reduced chances of hospitalisation as a result of vaccination become more a matter of personal responsibility (with a tertiary impact on the NHS).
@edscoble The Scottish administration is too incompetent to be part of any grand conspiracy. No ulterior motive intended.