Not that interested
Hmm, I’m still opposed to mandatory vaccination (especially still as flu jab is optional.. appreciate flu and covid are different bea but that’s another story all together).
There is a piece in that text that also suggests mandatory vaccination isn’t as clear cut as made out to be and that if natural immunity can be proven it could be the way to go.
Misinformation and the ease at which is accessible and spreadable is worrying.
Neither jab is mandatory, apart, in this country, from certain professions where it makes sense to maximise protection against covid. I'd love to make it mandatory, however, I'd advocate the intelligent libertarian's case (ie commentators like Claire Foges, as opposed to the headbanger Tories like Harper / CRG, et al who really fail to understand the true meaning of 'libertarian' ) that:-
1. The greatest current threat to our freedoms is a virus in pandemic state.
2. There are 2 known measures which restrict the spread of this virus:-
1. Shut everything down to slow its spread- which screws up life, the economy, pretty much everything else.
2. Have a safe, effective vaccine which is now available.
3. The greatest ongoing threat to our freedoms are those who refuse to have the vaccine despite it being safe for the vast, vast majority of those who have had it.
You could make vaccines compulsory, but that runs the risk of creating self identifying 'martyrs' (hello Piers, you stupid, dangerous dick). Or, in the only known instance where I agree with le Petit Bonaparte, you could 'piss off' the unvaccinated by constraining their access to, well, life, because they are a danger to themselves and, more pertinently, everyone else. Vaccine Passports ('Freedom Passes') to go/get into anywhere allow a voluntary element and the huge majority of us who are safely vaccinated can get on with our lives.
Omicron is relatively mild as an infection because we've vaccinated so many against covid which has mitigated its spread and virulence; be under no illusions that it's worst is confined to the unvaccinated, I know doctors who can vouch for that and their empirical evidence backed up by data and, um, facts. It's chances of becoming something more are inversely proportional to the number being vaccinated, like for seasonal flu - I have that too.
The unvaccinated are the barrier to freedom. Vaccines work. Stop arguing. Get vaccinated. Done me no harm, nor everybody who I know. Beats dying, whether it's me or the person I unknowingly infect. That last is the point the arrogant, selfish anti-vaxxers consistently fail to understand. There really is no viable argument against that, the voluntarily unvaccinated are a danger to us all.
