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It's an interesting question but (at least in the US) a culturally very well-settled one. There's an extremely long history of vaccination being required for pa

It's an interesting question but (at least in the US) a culturally very well-settled one. There's an extremely long history of vaccination being required for participation in various aspects of society, from the military to public education. During the pandemic, it broadened to "presence in office." The three tools a society has to defend against rampant disease are hygiene, vaccination, and quarantine. Those who cannot or will not participate in the first two may, if necessary, be handled via the third, and this is pretty bog-standard "How not to have a whole city suffer from typhoid" stuff. As we're talking morality and not the law: there's nothing immoral about "No shirt, no shoes, no service."

nonethewiser 4y ago
> It's an interesting question but (at least in the US) a culturally very well-settled one. The fact that people disagree means that it is not.
- shadowgovt 4y ago
  Historically well-settled. This is just the first time this generation of Americans had to deal with an airborne pandemic like this. Many were surprised at the authority government has during a disease crisis (I blame a lack of civic education), but the questions had been asked and answered before they were born. People chafed at the restrictions during the 1918 flu also, and many died who flouted them. Philadelphia saturated the city's capacity to process corpses.