> mandatory vaccination will be interpreted as an aggression/oppression by many and is therefore dangerous. I wouldn't go as far as calling it "dangerous", but

> mandatory vaccination will be interpreted as an aggression/oppression by many and is therefore dangerous. I wouldn't go as far as calling it "dangerous", but … it might be reckless, yes. I've been myself during COVID very vocally opposed to over-cautious rules that didn't take into account political climate (because overly aggressive rules may create future antivax advocates). I wrote about this here if you'd like to read: https://tildes.net/~health.coronavirus/ve8/covid_19_in_belgium_february_2021_edition https://tildes.net/~health.coronavirus/ve8/covid_19_in_belgi... > Therefore I maintain: there is no way to compare long-term risk induced by a new vaccine to COVID-related risk, I see no way to directly conclude that vaccination is the best path. It sounds like the main thing we're disagreeing on is how much weight is given to an unknown risk of an unknown chance, that may or may not happen in the future. This is all weighted against the fact that COVID has known risks, today, and further unknown risks, today as well. Furthermore, you don't seem to take into account the fact that catching COVID may in fact do all the things you dread from a vaccine and then more. It's a virus. A disease that rewrites your DNA, fucks with your blood, spreads, mutates, comes back for more. I don't see how you can possibly put this on the same scale as a vaccine which, while I grant you has unknowns and has risks, still has been thoroughly both in clinical trials (I'm myself part of a clinical trial for a vaccine, CureVac) and in the real world. I cannot read the future, no. But your argument essentially relies on you reading the future for the virus, rather than the vaccine. Since neither of us can read the future, it makes sense to make decisions based on what is more likely to happen: Long-term issues from the vaccine vs long-term issues from COVID. The latter is more likely to happen, because there are both known short and long term issues from COVID as well as unknown ones. Whereas the vaccine only has unknown ones of any significance, at this point.