About immigration and vaccination

[Marthe48]

I heard the other day that the US will, for now, limit the number of refugees admitted to our country to 15,000. people. There is a policy change that will allow a larger number of skilled workers to get a green card.

According to Worldometer, the US has lost 588,337 people to Covid-19 this last year. Even though over 200 million Americans are now vaccinated, or partially vaccinated, there is still a hard core group who are anti-vaxers and anti-immigration. They refuse to get vaccinated and they don't want our borders opened.

I don't want to sound cold-blooded, but I just thought of a way to use the anti-immigration attitude to get people to get a vaccination. Maybe it would bring those recalcitrant people around if we tie to the number of immigrants to the number of Americans who died over the last year and the number of Americans who are vaccinated.

I personally would like to see 500,000 people accepted into the US to rebuild our population. I guess that isn't realistic, but maybe the government could figure out a ratio that is a balance between how many Americans are vaccinated to how many refugees, immigrants and migrants are allowed to enter. Higher vac. rates, lower immigration quotas. Lower vac, rates, higher immigration quotas. And I'd like to see the highest quotas made permanent and increased.

[abqtommy]

1. My solution to the anti-vaxxers is to put them all in jail. We can sort out those with valid

medical problems and let them go but keep the ideologues and freedumb lovers locked
up until they get their full course of jabs.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, let's vaccinate all our migrants because it's the right thing
to do.

[Marthe48]

2. It might come to that

Stern measures. I wish they'd go to Mars :/

I hope that the migrants, immigrants and refugees get health care, including vaccinations.