I can easily foresee a contingency when mandatory vaccination would be reasonable and prudent.
This isn't it.
H1N1 influenza is milder than "regular" influenza, has lower hospitalization and case fatality rates, and the experience in the Southern Hemisphere winter, now ending, was unremarkable.
The ways and means by which this minor event has become a major news story, not to mention an open door for coercive government policy, is quite an interesting story by itself.
You stated: I can easily foresee a contingency when mandatory vaccination would be reasonable and prudent
I cound not disagree more with that you. Why? To use your logic.....If your vaccine works as good as you think it would, then you will be safe and a few that don’t want it will only be a danger to ourselves. However, if the vaccine doesn’t work as expected, or is dangerous and causes medical problems or death, then you want to force us to die with you or be put in some kind of camp.........Boy that makes a lot of sense....../sarcasm off
How dare you be in favor of taking away my right to refuse medical treatment. Do some research on all the dangerous crap in these vaccines. Heck, the fact that the manufacturer has no liability at all for harm or death should be enough to wake up anyone with a little sense!
I can never see a contingency where forcing people to be vaccinated was ever necessary.
If something as truly as bad as they would have us believe this flu is then people will be swarming in to have shots, therefore forcing them to have it would be unnecessary and more than a little stupid.
There probably wouldn't be enough vaccine to go around in that case and the government would probably have to put guards around any vaccination point to keep people out.
There is never good, valid reason to suspend liberties. The only reason to ever do so is to force the will of the government onto the people. Not a valid reason.
I agree. At this juncture, there seems to be a high infectious rate, and deaths occurring among those most at risk.
I don’t think the general population should be at more risk than the common flu.
When I was young we were mandated to take polio and small pox. We have now seen those diseases eradicated.
There does come a time when you either take a vaccine to survive or you will be quaranteened.
In this case, NJ has decided to mandate the vaccine or else you stay home and away from others.
I think they need to convince us on the basis of why they are doing this.