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That's a great question, seriously. In a world where Omicron is as deadly as, say, SARS or Ebola, and the vaccine is super effective, you would not have to in
by chrissnell 5y ago
That's a great question, seriously. In a world where Omicron is as deadly as, say, SARS or Ebola, and the vaccine is super effective, you would not have to institute mandates to get people vaxxed. They would gladly get it or they would perish. This is where the trouble with the COVID vax lies: many of us look around and we don't see people dying like flies. We don't have dead friends or relatives. We do, however, see vaxxed people sick with COVID, and we a government doing its best to suppress information about COVID that it perceived as harmful to the vax effort, regardless of its veracity.
The totality of all of this makes many of us very distrustful of our government and foments resistance where there used to be none.
- jbay808 5y agoThanks for your answer! I really want to get at the root principles here, so let's veer even further from reality and say that the virus is lethal only to people with, say, type-AB blood, or blue eyes, or whatever. But other people are asymptomatic carriers. Is it justifiable to impose a vaccine mandate, if brown-eyed or type-A/B/O people are not bothering to get vaccinated because they feel safe themselves? (I'm really more interested in the philosophy and ethics than the facts of the actual situation. I agree that on the factual level in 2022, there's plenty of room to argue about the usefulness or counterproductivity of these mandates. I want to know if vaccine manades are ever justified).
- bobthechef 5y ago
- pas 5y ago> They would gladly get it or they would perish. ... people don't work like that. :/