Moral hazards, risk compensation, financial incentives... Fine topics (and good homework subjects for econ undergrads!) but we need a bit of species-awareness here, along with some demand for empirical rigor and evidence before applying such logics to questions like this.
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Policies aimed at humans, not Vulcans.

People holding out on getting vaccinated this far into a global pandemic will likely respond to barriers to testing by... testing less. Something else is going on; and making sure they're tested is good policy.https://twitter.com/RileenSinha/status/1459256506352869385 …Show this thread -
Now *this* part may work, especially over time and depending on age, but it depends, in my view, on the details of enforcement and kind of barriers. A mixture of the face-saving element and hassle, more than the cost which can lead to withdrawal/forgery.https://twitter.com/AmericanUmlaut/status/1459259575350214663 …
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FWIW, I've found rapid tests very useful despite vaccination. Sniffles? Flu vaccine side effects? Meeting people with varying levels of risk? I can afford rapid tests and use them because I'd like to lessen the chances of unknowingly infecting others.https://twitter.com/rsthau/status/1459261713514209282 …
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Fair point. A lot of economists have been pushing back against evidence-free assumptions around such nudges and/or incentives, and some of the best empirical post-pandemic work showing these concerns weren't warranted came from econ people.https://twitter.com/wwwojtekk/status/1459615544018182157 …
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(Also: I hadn't said econ undergrad to insult econ undergrads! It *is* appropriate homework to have young learners think through moral hazards via examples, but just not for this particular topic.)
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Same in Switzerland
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The OSHA ETS doesn't assign the expense for tests for unvaccinated workers to the employer.
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France was at least considering it, not sure if they went through with the policy.
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It did go through, and this is already showing in the average time between symptoms and test results because people first go to their GP for a prescription...https://twitter.com/flodebarre/status/1459226421549838342 …
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