Any suitable candidate for a COVID-19 vaccine can voluntarily choose whether to get the shot when the opportunity arises. Mandates, however, set conditions on p

Any suitable candidate for a COVID-19 vaccine can voluntarily choose whether to get the shot when the opportunity arises. Mandates, however, set conditions on participation to encourage vaccination: If you want to go to work, attend school, or travel, get vaccinated. With compulsory vaccination, individual consent is not an option. Force is used if necessary. Though a vestige of a bygone era of public health practice, limited legal authority remains for forcible vaccination among certain groups. The term mandate may be particularly confusing. https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/covid-vaccination-law-mandates-requirements.html https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/covid-vaccination-law-m... Mandatory is "if you don't, you're {fired, cannot enter our business, cannot attend our school, ...}". Compulsory is "the nice police officer standing right next to me is going to watch as we vaccinate you on your front porch, got it?" or "we will fine you $X thousand dollars if you appear in public unvaccinated". The former case was (now again famously) done in Boston ... in 1775. The latter has been done occasionally in the past 4 or 5 years to stamp out measles infections, notably in new york state.