All governments want to increase rates of vaccination against Covid-19. With the Omicron wave in full flow and health systems across the world under strain, anger at those who still refuse to be vaccinated is growing.
Desperate times, desperate measures, you might say. Measures like fining the unvaxxed. This week, it was announced that the Canadian province of Quebec would penalise the unvaccinated by imposing “significant” health tax (exact amount to be decided). Quebec joins Greece, which fines people over the age of 60 €100 for each month they don’t get their jab, and Singapore, where unvaccinated Covid patients are required to pay their own medical bills, despite the country’s otherwise universal healthcare system. There have – inevitably – been calls for Britain to follow.
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