| > What I do know is that the certainty was not at the threshold which justified mandatory vaccination Why do you feel confident in saying that? Because I still don't. I feel like it's still unknown to me how many lives or hours off work, or side-effects were avoided by the mandated vaccines, or were not. And similarly, I feel it is still unknown how many lives, or hours off work, or side-effects were caused by the mandated vaccines, or were not. Personally, I can't say if the threshold for mandatory vaccination was met or not until I know these things unequivocally. What I could get behind, is an unrelated moral argument that would simply claim that free personal choice always trumps collectivism. But this would hold even if say COVID was super deadly to everyone and the vaccine prevented it, it would still hold that in the end it is each person's choice to get vaccinated or not, even if not doing so can contribute to the spread to others or their own death from the virus. If instead we say there is a threshold at which indivualism has to yield to collectivism, I'm not sure I know where to put that threshold, or if the one that was decided for vaccination was wrong. |