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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 22:08:21 JST Rich Felker

   Full legal liability as solution to antivax?

   You spread some disease that's preventable by vaccine? Everyone you give it to can sue for medical bills, lost wages, wrongful death, etc.

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     Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:05:05 JST Sophie Schmieg

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     @dalias from HIV prevention, we know that penalizing transmission is a very bad idea.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:05:05 JST Rich Felker

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     • Sophie Schmieg

     @sophieschmieg That's in the absence of vaccine or clearing of the infection. Completely different situation.

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     quixote (quixote@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 11:12:04 JST quixote

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     @dalias Less can be more. Utah in the US has more than its fair share of, um, eccentrics. 20-30 years ago, when people still took public health seriously, the authorities were trying to get everyone vaxed.

     It being the US, the vaccines cost $25. You could fill out a piece of paper for a religious exemption. Heaps of people did that.

     Someone had the bright idea: hey! make the exemption cost $25 and make the vax free.

     Solved it. Vax rates shot up. Religions apparently stopped caring overnight.