If the government allows the immune to return only to certain jobs or if employers prefer to hire those who are immune, that could also create a set of perverse incentives to deliberately get infected with COVID-19, especially for the young and otherwise healthy who might think it’s worth the risk for a job. Unemployment has shot to record numbers during the pandemic, after all, and many people who have lost their jobs are those who can least afford to. They might see immunity as a way out of unemployment, despite the dangers.
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k-takahashi.hatenablog.comというのを書いたが、実は過去に似たようなことは起こっていた。というのが上記引用の記事。19世紀に黄熱病が流行ったときにニューオーリンズで起こったことを紹介している。免疫獲得が特権化するというもの。
