” what happens to people who refuse to be tested?”
They don’t get to go back to work, because what employer in his right mind would allow people to work in his business who have refused to be tested and could put his other employees and customers at a health risk?
Those other employees and customers could sue him.
As a lot of the sports owners have said, unless we can test people, we can’t let them into our stadiums or we’ll be liable for spreading the virus to others.
Ultimately, it will be private businesses who enforce testing, out of self-protection from the virus.
People will be free not to get tested - if they don’t want to work or be customers. Just like you’re free to walk around barefoot, if you mind not getting hired or not being allowed into a store. “No shirt? No shoes? Fine, but no service”
China already has a system for knowing who has had covid19 and recovered it’s an app on smartphones that shows a green QR code for those who are recovered and therefore immune...which now Korea, Japan and China are seeing people relapse so immunity probably is not a certainty just because someone survives. The big tech companies are already on board for an American version of this with those who test positive for antibodies and negative for the antigen would be considered immune and no longer infectious. They would get green codes and full unlimited access to businesses, venues, mass transit, work ect. People who test positive for the antigen would get red codes and be subject to quarantine as they have an active covid19 infection. People who refuse the tests or test negative to both would get yellow indicating not immune and no positive antigen or lack of antigen testing. This is exactly the passport Dr. F was talking about. Everyone with a green pass goes back to normal life. The yellows it would be up to private companies if they wanted to let at risk people in but what company would risk litigation of such magnitude I know I wouldn’t touch that with a 50 foot pole even with an air tight LLC and massive insurance. The yellows could chose to get infected on purpose then quarantine and roll the dice of survival once they have a positive antibodies and negative antigen test they are clear. Well three negative antigen tests over 48 hours was the original protocol to leave quarantine one test after two weeks without symptoms should be sufficient.
Sounds like a very bleak future, mandatory testing or some variation of the same.