Would you support lockdowns for the unvaccinated ?

Austria is days away from ordering millions of unvaccinated people to stay at home, its chancellor has said, in a rare move that underscores the increasing exasperation of European leaders towards those who have not yet been inoculated against Covid-19.

Under Austria's plan, which was agreed in September, unvaccinated Austrians will face a stay-at-home order once 30% of intensive-care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients. The current rate is 21%, according to the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), and a surge in infections has pushed it up quickly.

Unvaccinated people are already excluded from entertainment venues, restaurants, hairdressers and other parts of public life in Austria. If the new measures come into place, the unvaccinated will be ordered to stay home except for a few limited reasons; the rules will be policed by officers carrying out spot checks on those who are out.

Around 65% of Austria's population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, one of the lower rates in the European Union.
''It is clear that this winter will be uncomfortable for the unvaccinated," Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg warned on Thursday.

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SomeMichGuy · M

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[quote]Not all unvaccinated will get covid[/quote]

@MrBrownstone True, with caveats (below).

As has been said MANY times, the RATE at which unvaccinated people get it is greater (the chance of it), as well as the chance of it being a worse case (hospitalization), and even the worst case (dying).

Caveats:
The longer this goes and the stronger the variants get, the more likely it is that BOTH unvaccinated & fully-vaccinated will get infected more frequently. This is what happened when the Delta variant became dominant and started sickening & killing children & young adults who had previously been ok.

Also, with asymptomatic CoViD, one could get it and never know, of course.

MrBrownstone · 46-50, M

@SomeMichGuy Same with vaccinated. They can have it,not know and spread it.

CestManan · 46-50, F

@SomeMichGuy Whatever variant comes after the post-delta one, they are predicting it will be so bad that it will bring people back from the dead just so it can kill them off again.

Shaveit · 61-69, M

@MrBrownstone The unvaccinated will more likely be asymptomatic and spread it more readily than those that are unvaccinated. Vaccines and antibiotics when administered to those that are not sick or at high risk can actually cause variants to emerge.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Shaveit [quote] The unvaccinated will more likely be asymptomatic[/quote]
Yes

[quote] spread it more readily than those that are unvaccinated[/quote]
No

[quote] Vaccines when administered to those that are not sick or at high risk can actually cause variants to emerge.[/quote]
Lol no. Totally backwards.