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Originally Posted by Rusty
When women fight about abortions, saying my body, my decision. It should apply to the vaccine too. If you do or don't take the vaccine, mask or not. It's your responsibility for your own body, not the gov't dictating on what to do. With the gov't saying what you must do. It's becoming a dictatorship. We are losing our liberty. It's my body, my decision, my responsibility, my health and safety. And can live with that. Not the gov't forcing something into my body that I'm not sure about. What ever happened to;
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The gov't is stepping all over this. I've had the "Wuflu" in Jan of 2020. I got my shots and booster. Think we had the "O" flu the end of Dec. If the shots made a difference, I don't know. Do I trust the shots? No, but we will have to wait years to find out. The gov't went about this the wrong way. Instead of trying to force something down your throat. Passive educate people. You get more with honey then vinegar. The more you try to force it. The more resistance.
And we a demented potato in office.
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I hear you, but Public Health by definition is authoritarian: "Do this for the greater good of the community." Just like vaccines are mandated for schoolchildren and college students.
Now, the federal gov't is not, in my learned legal opinion, granted the 'police power' under the Constitution to mandate shots. That's reserved to the states; who absolutely have the power to mandate a shot.
I would also say the situation has changed. In that there was a more cogent argument for making people get a shot back when we thought it would prevent infection and thus prevent community spread. Then there was a case for being pissy at people who wouldn't get it. But now that the shot only ameliorated symptoms and doesn't prevent community spread, it's a whole different ballgame.
That being said, I don't think those who were originally against the shot can cite in support of their position that it doesn't prevent community spread. It's disingenuous; no one truly knew that was the case until Omicron in December.