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Most of your examples are private enterprises which has quite a bit of leeway. In which case absolutely. For public serves it is just an emphatic yes

Meanwhile vaccinated deaths remain very low and unvaccinated very high. Sooner or later there won't be many unvaccinated left to spread the disease

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> Sooner or later there won't be many unvaccinated left to spread the disease

Ah yes, their ranks might be thinned by up to 0.2% if they all catch COVID!

It's not like covid is going to slowdown for unvaccinated so that percent will end up being amended to be .02 percent per week or day

COVID slows down all the time. Have you ever looked at a case graph? It comes and goes and the risk is not 0.2% per day, it's 0.2% or lower per infection which given that natural immunity works better than vaccination, basically happens and for many people (like me) appears to have actually never happened. But even if you assume a 100% chance of being eventually infected, it's not anything close to 0.2% per day.

0.2% of the population _per day_ would be something like 50% a year. That's worse than the black plague, a worse variant of Anthrax or runaway Marburg which spread even more easily...

We'd be in Walkin' dead territory...

I think you missed the part where people dying from COVID is not random, but touches people with 3-4 comorbidities for the most part. So in effect you will run out of people dying well before you run out of unvaccinated.

> Sooner or later there won't be many unvaccinated left to spread the disease

yeah, the disease will still spread happily among vaccinated people, and you have achieved nothing in terms of disease eradication.

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