What is the thinking behind this new study suggesting that people unvaccinated against Covid need to pay more for car insurance?

GALLAGHER: I love being able to tackle tough issues. How about this one? A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine claims those unvaccinated from Covid are more likely to get in traffic accidents. Are you serious? Last night, radio host Jason Rantz kicked this around with Tucker last night.

RANTZ: Pretending vaccination status actually corresponds with risky driving. It is the latest effort to shame the unvaccinated perhaps line pockets of insurance companies. Dr. Donald Redelmeier at the Sunny Brook research institute. He claimed motorists that skipped Covid vaccine demonstrated 50-70% more frequently compared to those who got the shot. He wrote this does not mean Covid-19 vaccination prevents traffic violations, instead it suggests adults who don’t follow public health advice may neglect the rules of the road. Let’s buckle up and get through this junk study. The study that looks at crashes that landed all victims in the hospitals so in other words. If a vaccinated driver hits two unvaccinated pedestrians and they all go to the hospital, data reflects one unvaccinated victim as a risky driver and two unvaccinated victims are risky drivers as well. One vaccinated victim plus two unvaccinated pedestrians who end up becoming victims even though they didn’t drive. They skew the data to disfavor the unvaccinated. Same if the driver didn’t go to the hospital. Unvaxed pedestrians did. It counts the two unvaxxed as risky, but not the actual driver who didn’t go to the hospital an happens to be vaccinated. Now what is not in the data who is responsible for the crash? That info could obviously show the vaccinated caused accidents. Using researchers approach, we could argue the government banning unvaccinated. That forced them to drive. We could say Justin Trudeau is causing the accidents. It is such an unserious study. You wonder why it gets published at all. This is a conclusion, the observed risks might bring changes to driver insurance policies in the future. So basically they are saying, get the shot or pay higher insurance rates.