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As others have pointed out, communism would work perfectly here - immunize your child whether you like it or not. At least by school age here is what they did
by rdtsc 9y ago
As others have pointed out, communism would work perfectly here - immunize your child whether you like it or not.
At least by school age here is what they did - they'd come to school, call each classroom by age to the nurse's office. They'd be a visiting nurse with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_injector or vials of oral polio vaccines and you'd be immunized no questions asked. Not even sure if they sent a note to parents or how they even recorded it happened.
So they did that pretty well. Many other things like like economy, freedom of speech, not so much.
- orf 9y agoOh right, fair enough! I meant in the more general sense, specifically the "someone else will do it, why should I" (which I think would also apply to any form of optional taxes). I'm not sure how prevalent that was in communist-era Russia though.
- rdtsc 9y ago> "someone else will do it, why should I" (which I think would also apply to any form of optional taxes). I'm not sure how prevalent that was in communist-era Russia though. Very prevalent. One could argue that it was the reason for the downfall. "Why should I work harder if the corrupt state will just take away my profits and ideas etc. I'll just lay low and let someone else do the work, and still get paid the same amount". But you gotta give to the devil what belongs to the devil and they provided free government housing, pretty good schools, and basic medical care. Oh and a cool space program and pretty fast industrialization, up until the 60s or so, at least. All the other stuff was rotten and corrupt to the core. It is surprising it even lasted that long.