Your hyper-obsession with authoritarianism is downright scary.
Private insurance companies will do it, stupidity will be a preexisting condition. I'm in favor of mandatory vaccinations like a majority of people. Why fuck around with idiots and chicken shits?
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Should the COVID-19 Vaccine Be Mandated in US Immunization Campaign? (businessinsider.com)
Should the COVID-19 vaccine be mandated? Debate takes center stage, as hospitals, colleges and businesses start requiring the shot.
- A new phase of the US immunization campaign has begun, with supply now expected to exceed demand.
- Public-health experts are debating whether vaccine mandates for some groups would help or hurt.
- Some organizations, like a major Houston health system, are requiring the shot for their employees.
The US vaccination campaign is entering a new phase, marked by excess supply of shots. And public-health experts, bioethicists, and doctors are debating whether or not mandating the COVID-19 vaccine would be helpful or harmful.
The arguments for and against mandates are shaping up to be a signature element of this next phase of the immunization campaign, as the key challenge in reaching herd immunity shifts from supply to demand. And experts are split on whether or not it's time to start enacting such requirements, as much of the nation continues to re-open and relax public-health restrictions.
Amid the debate, a small smattering of businesses and organizations are already requiring the shot, including
a New York restaurant, a factory in Louisville, Kentucky,
and a large health system in Houston.
More than 100 colleges and universities have said they will require the shot for students and staff to return to campuses in the fall.
Overall, in conversations with five bioethicists, doctors, and public-health experts, Insider found an array of opinions on mandates. The most ardent backers say they should be rolled out now. Other supporters say they make sense in the next few months. Other experts warned the mandates are a heavy-handed approach that will be harmful at this stage in the rollout. There should be more in education and outreach to hesitant groups before requiring the shot, they say.
Art Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University, said he hopes more groups will follow the mandate track.
"Why are we still battling vaccine hesitancy with one hand behind our back?" Caplan told Insider. "Let's start to move a mandate through populations that are posing risks to others."
Caplan and other experts in favor of mandates aren't talking about requiring the general public to be immunized. Instead, he said specific groups of people should be required to get the shot. His list includes healthcare workers, nursing home staff, military, people in congregate living settings like college dorms or group homes, customs and immigration workers, and people working in prisons or jails. Many of these groups were among the first to be offered the shot.
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