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0 pointsdmalik4y ago0 comments

It primarily comes down to resources and cost.

Right now in Ontario 80% of covid cases are coming from non fully vaccinated individuals(1).

It costs $23k to treat a covid patient and $50k if they reach the ICU(2). Chances of not landing in the ICU are 99.9% if you're fully vaccinated(3).

Many health resources are going to treat covid instead of things like elective surgeries. Allowing non-essential businesses to fully open without a vaccine passport will only lead to more cases and more resources being wasted.

The thought of getting injured right now is scary because I could wait years for something like a herniated disc surgery (which is very debilitating). I'd much prefer we take steps to take as much strain off the health system as we can.

1 - https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-logs-600-new-covid-19-cas...

2 - https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cihi-covid19-canada-hospital-...

3 - https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/health/fully-vaccinated-peopl...

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908B64B1974y ago

> The thought of getting injured right now is scary because I could wait years for something like a herniated disc surgery (which is very debilitating).

And yet how much do you pay year after year for healthcare via taxes?

dmalikOP4y ago

> And yet how much do you pay year after year for healthcare via taxes?

11.5% of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP). $265.5 billion, or $ 7064 per person. Imagine that will go up with covid...

https://www.cihi.ca/en/health-spending

ksaj4y ago

I'm also from Canada. We pay the same amount despite the fact that we are in mid-pandemic. Therefore resources are allotted to dealing with the large number of Covid cases that end up in ICU.

This isn't a case of being "short changed" with our taxes. This is a case of large groups of people needlessly filling the emergency wards when there are clearer options that are easier on the population as a whole.

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