If you are my age, you remember polio. Our parents couldn’t wait to get us vaccinated. You didn’t have to make it obligatory. We wanted it.
This is the argument. It isn’t, are vaccines a good thing. Its whether or not they should be obligatory, as in, take your kids away from you and put you in jail obligatory. Thats a different subject.
There may be some diseases in which that is the case, you are prepared to use police power to enforce it. There may be other cases, other diseases, where it is not right to use the power of the state to enforce it.
But as I say, in the worst cases, with the worst diseases, it doesn’t take much incentive to get people to get the shot. They want it. Its the secondary diseases, where people start to consider the risks and occasionally refuse to be stampeded.
“This is the argument. It isn’t, are vaccines a good thing. Its whether or not they should be obligatory, as in, take your kids away from you and put you in jail obligatory.”
Who is making that argument though? I only ever hear about this from anti-vaxxers, I have yet to hear anyone seriously advocate that position.