01-07-2022, 07:32 PM
(01-07-2022, 05:14 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I certainly agree that literally holding people down and forcing a needle into them is unacceptable in our society, but there are so many other options that this suggestion is basically just a bad faith argument.
You should know me well enough by now to know I’m not saying anything in bad faith.
But that being said, you make a valid point: there is as you say a wide range of what “mandatory” could mean. For example, making everybody who isn’t vaccinated by a specific date subject to a $25 fine would be an extremely mild form of “mandatory” but since it would legally be a requirement it would count as mandatory.
In fact, for precisely that reason, it occurs to me we should be cautious of what a politician means by mandatory: do they just want to be able to say that they’re instituting mandatory vaccination? That $25 fine would do basically nothing for vaccination rates but would allow somebody to claim that they had made vaccination “mandatory”. I’d be more impressed with a politician who comes up with a way that actually works of increasing vaccination rates.