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All kinds of vaccines have been mandatory for generations. You wouldn't have been allowed to attend school if you hadn't had loads of them. In the US for instan
by _moof 5y ago
All kinds of vaccines have been mandatory for generations. You wouldn't have been allowed to attend school if you hadn't had loads of them. In the US for instance all schoolchildren are required to be vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, varicella, measles, and rubella, and almost all states also require vaccinations against mumps and hepatitis B. So please don't act like requiring vaccination is some unprecedented erosion of personal liberty, because it just plain isn't.
- disambiguation 5y agoAll kinds of vaccines are also not required, namely the flu vaccine, which covid arguably has more in common with than any of the other diseases above.
- _moof 5y agoWhich is completely beside the point since the post I was replying to is apparently bemoaning vaccine mandates generally as some unprecedented new development, which again, they aren't. If you want to have a discussion about whether this particular vaccine should be mandated, fine, but that's not at all what the person I was replying to was trying to do; they were complaining about mandates of any kind, and apparently don't know that mandates are as old as dirt and just as common.
- kmonad 5y agohowever, in a hospital setting they are required, by government mandate.
- disambiguation 5y agoI guess it depends what part of the world you're in, but flu vaccines are not mandated in hospitals here in the US. https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/flu-vaccine-requirements-for-health-care-workers-in-hospitals-and-long-term-care-facilities/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/flu-vaccine-requir...