Reb E,
“It is like children. If they don’t do it voluntarily, they must be forced.”
I am not sure what you are responding or referring to, I have also not read through most of the posts yet.
However, the basic concept of forcing people into a specific treatment goes against the basic individual rights of autonomy. While there has been some legislation in some states with regards to vaccines, in general, it goes against medicine.
Besides, medicine is and science, in general, is evolving, what was believed to be therapeutic in the past, at times after more understanding is now believed to be detrimental, different doctors may have different opinions, so it is understandable that the individual gets to decide on getting treatment or not treated, even when their decision goes against the standard of accepted care, there is no standard that is acceptable when there is no consent from the patient.
With the Covid vaccines, it was initially marketed as something that will make Covid disappear and life will get back to normal, as we knew it. With that pretense, mandates had some context and made sense, because the lack of widespread vaccination meant that the world would be stuck in this state and vaccinating everyone, was the answer to this.
This was a false premise, the vaccines, as it stands today is not capable of eradicating the virus, maybe something will change, a better vaccine or something else may happen, but right now, while the vaccinated in general are fairing better than the unvaccinated, that does not make it more Ok to force people into any specific treatment, even if it is a prophylactic treatment.
If we were to go back to the initial reasons for vaccinating the population, it would be deemed a failure, but its ok, data gets produced, science evolves and we act accordingly, but we need to understand that its still a work in progress, we don’t have all the answers, what we thought would happen, did not happen, so forcing people into something that we haven’t yet figured out, for the mere sake that these individuals will be less likely to have severe symptoms if and when they are infected with Covid, does not make a lot of sense.
-my 2 scents.