If someone wants to smoke they can do so, they just can't do it in the middle of a restaurant. I have no problem with that.
If someone is unvaccinated and wants a meal, they can't go to a restaurant. That' s the equivalent setting here. I have no problem with that. I think the business community will force changes to that in due course, but I have no problem with it.
The equivalent of a vaccine mandate in smoking is to physically force all smokers to stop smoking, anywhere, by injecting them with a substance that causes (enter very nasty outcome) if they take it and try to smoke, even in their own home. In this fabricated comparison, a person can't even walk into a restaurant with a rectangular bulge in their pocket, because there's some slim chance they could be cigarettes, and the perp may be intending to light up inside.
Mandatory vaccination in this instance is authoritarian overreach in the extreme. The grounding for this view is well trodden, pretty much these days you either accept it as a fact, or you don't. What has surprised me is the degree to which people who have in the past purported to be invested in civil liberty and the sanctity of one's own body (including the pro-Choice brigade) have so easily gone the whole hog in behind Vaccine mandates. I suppose I also couldn't understand why so many tens of millions of Germans failed to voice opposition to the extermination of an entire cohort of fellow citizens on the basis of religion, but I guess if they weren't Jewish, it probably wasn't any skin off their nose what they tacitly supported with their silence :/
Economic coercion to force people to take a relatively untracked, new, randomly dangerous and sometimes lethal injection whose regulatory approval is based solely on the 'data' handed over by a sector who stands to make (and has made) billions in its uptake, has a long track record of telling blatant lies to increase profit, and banned any use of its product without the signing of a document which provides the manufacturer with an impenetrable liability shield against everything from wiping out the entirety of mankind, to the odd death, to skin irritation, to it plain not working at all is just silly. No recourse. No refunds, so sorry. So keen are they to bolster the confidence of those in receipt of their product that the FDA have offered to release all the data - data that took them 108 days to read and approve - over a 55 year period ending with the last 500 pages in the year 2076. All cool and normal.
But beyond all of that, nobody has been able to tell me why it is so important to force Australians to be vaccinated - on pain of losing your job, your house, just about everything except your freedom to "choose" - if the vaccinated and unvaccinated are comingling every day across the country without a single outbreak. Not one**.
**Since the vaccine rollout began, there have been hundreds of millions of visits to supermarkets across thousands of locations in every state and territory in Australia (because seemingly even fascists draw the line at the deliberate starvation of their population), and I can't recall a single outbreak in any of them. How is that possible? If none of the 26 million Australians who go to the supermarket (those who can) were vaccinated, and on a sliding scale that now stands at around 2 million unvaccinated people still going to supermarkets, and Covid is such a grave danger to society that all unvaccinated people should be forced unwillingly to be jabbed, then why hasn't a single supermarket been declared a hotspot?
Why? With literally hundreds of millions of visits to supermarkets since the vaccine became available for use, across thousands of outlets, surely the sample size involved would make very clear the dangers posed to the vaccinated by the unvaccinated? Surely when say only 10% of the country was double jabbed, meaning 90% of the patrons of every supermarket in the country were unvaccinated, it would have been literally playing Russian roulette for the vaccinated to go down the market to buy groceries?
If the unvaccinated are such a threat to the jabbed, why has there - in the only place where they are still allowed to freely mingle* - been absolutely no community transmission? None. Where is the danger?
Where is the rationale for forced vaccination - the State invading the privacy of one's person to suit their own agenda - when there are thousands of examples of the vaxxed and unvaxxed mingling safely every day?
One can't say the same about any number of businesses which have been declared Covid hotspots despite all staff and patrons being fully vaccinated.
There is no justification. I never considered myself a civil libertarian, but it seems the variable ascribed to personal freedom for me is binary. It's either off or it's on, and these mandatory vaccinations have crossed the line.
It's a no from me.
(*= also includes all butchers and pharmacies, etc)
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