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Zeus posted...

Paying somebody to do something means that it's still voluntary. >_>

She specifically mentioned a fine

Mead posted...

wouldn't stuff like smallpox and polio still be around if this was the case?

As far as I know, those were never performed involuntarily.

adjl posted...

For personal health, sure. For public health, there's a lot more at stake than personal considerations, so leaving it entirely up to personal choice is going to run into some problems.

I think that my point is that if something is sufficiently deadly, people will voluntarily opt in to be vaccinated. A lot of the problem with the covid shot is many people clearly don't feel that it's a threat to them. And for most people, that's probably true. I know people that know people that have died from it but there are probably a ton of people who don't even know anyone that knows anyone that died from it or even came down with it because the death rate is less than 1% if I recall correctly.

I'm not arguing against getting the covid shot. Just saying that I think things like polio and smallpox were perceived as a greater threat by the public