Mandatory vaccines are nothing new

[sourcherie]

so we’ve been sliding down this slippery slope for about 200 years.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20211029-why-mandatory-vaccination-is-nothing-new

I have my misgivings - mainly because I don’t think it’s the way to persuade committed anti-vaxxers to get the jab - and it plays into their narrative. But there is a difference between coercive and mandatory vaccines, and with all mandatory vaccination so far, no one has had a needle forced into their arm against their will.

I would have gone about it differently, but as someone who’s lived in Austria for over 20 years, I can guarantee you that no one will be forced into it and there will be countless exemptions. As I wrote on another thread - Austrians have an extremely fuzzy grey zone when it comes to interpreting rules and regulations.

It seems on social media (including mumsnet) that people really think citizens are going to be pinned down and injected or that the police are going to be carting them off to prison left, right and centre. I’m fairly sure the reality will be a lot less eventful.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

It is mandatory, in this country, to drive on the left of the road.

People do drive on the left, on the whole; those who don't are quite likely to cause both their own death and that of the people they ram through stupidity/a refusal to accept that there may be reasons for rules which (gasp, shock, horror) impinge on their liberty to do whatever they want, or not do whatever they happen not to feel like.

"Mandatory" does not actually mean "the work of the Evil One."

See also mandatory crash helmets, seat belts, circuit breakers in domestic wiring, not beating infants with sticks....

Yep.

@CrunchyCarrot

helicopters spraying the vaccines

Now I really have heard everything!!

If that was effective, instead of threatening people with fines and imprisonment, they could just blanket vaccine-bomb the entire country that way. Or maybe seed clouds with vaccine, that seems an even better idea.

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