As is the case in France, on Thursday it was announced that the national government is studying the possibility of restricting activities to those who decide not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This was indicated by Sonia Tarragona, the chief of staff of the Ministry of Health, in a dialogue with Crónica Anuncia (Futurock): “Probably people who have not been vaccinated will not be able to do a set of activities if that puts others at risk.” We are not yet in a position to restrict anything because we do not have all the population we would like vaccinated, but, when the time comes, we will certainly have to put restrictions in place. One does not have to lose sight — and this is perhaps the most important thing — that vaccination is never individual: vaccination always has an individual benefit and a collective benefit or harm,” the official said.
One can choose not to get vaccinated, but one cannot decide on the possibility of transmitting a disease to others.
He continued: “There is a group of the population that does not come (to get vaccinated) or that does not register, but it does not have to do with not trusting or not wanting to be vaccinated, but there are a lot of barriers to access in Argentina: connectivity, access to a computer or a phone , living in the middle of a place where information does not arrive… in those cases, what’s going to have to happen —and it’s already happening—is to go house to house to look for them.” To conclude, he stressed that the government is not yet “at that moment to be able to restrict activities anymore,” but that in Argentina “surely” such a situation will occur when the number of people vaccinated is adequate.
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