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Interesting that you brought that up, If you look up the history of quarantining, it looks a lot different than compulsory administration of medicines. The sli
by tyri_kai_psomi 7y ago
Interesting that you brought that up, If you look up the history of quarantining, it looks a lot different than compulsory administration of medicines.
The slippery slope fallacy does not apply to governments. Once you give an inch, history has shown us indeed that miles are taken.
So why stop with vaccines? As a thought experiment, imagine the US moves to universal health coverage, where the government is the sole administrator of health payments. As a cost cutting measure, some department introduces legislation that requires proof you take your medication as exactly as prescribed in order to increase positive health outcomes, cut back on medicines administered, and reduce costly office visits. Again, similar situation to vaccines, "of course you should take them as prescribed", but do you want it to be forced? what if you feel particularly nauseous one day and don't want to take your nauseating-inducing drug? Or any other thousands of reasons people forget one time. Maybe you take more? Maybe the pharmaceutical industry was wrong about your recommended dosage and your medicine is killing you.
Anyways, it isn't hard to imagine. It's ironic to me that many proponents of "keep the government out of my body" vocalize support for these types of things.