As vaccinations increase, maintaining COVID-curbing behaviour is going to get more complicated – CBC

Clear health guidelines for vaccinated people could help maintain important social norms, writes Brooke Struck

Apr 09, 2021

Wear a mask. Stay home. Wash your hands. Over the past year, we’ve all generally abided by these rules, even with fairly minimal risk of punishment for breaking them. Though coercive measures — such as fines or imprisonment — have technically been on the table, it’s social norms that have helped us to adopt and maintain these crucial behaviours.

But with vaccination ramping up, the situation is going to become much more complex.

Vaccinations create a challenge in terms of how to keep these important COVID-curbing behaviours working. Those behaviours are especially important right now, with case counts surging and the variants getting a foothold in Canada even as our vaccination campaign builds momentum.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-vaccination-covid-rules-behaviour-1.5973372

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