Whether or not the coronavirus was leaked in a lab during gain of function research or developed naturally should not really impact on our decision whether or not to take the vaccine.
Regardless of ts provenance it is a serious and dangerous (for some) virus and so if there is a vaccine available and we want to be protected from death or hospitalisation then common sense would say that it is a good idea to take it.
But mandatory?? ? Nope. Vaccines have never been mandatory in the UK and making this one mandatory will actually work to sow distrust in people who prefer to exercise choice over these things. Witness the huge uptake of polio, MMR, BCG flu vaccine etc most people take these vaccines or have their children take them because they make a sensible rational decision that is not made under coercion.
As soon as the vaccine is associated with coercion then it is human nature that more people will resist it. So it is just stupid, as well as authoritarian, to make this vaccine mandatory.
And before someone brings up health care workers please see upthread my link on this, HCWs are* asked to get HepB vaccine if they are likely to come in to contact with blood in their work. This is to protect them not their patients. Furthermore this is Not mandated by law, it is guidance and not even guidance in some trusts. Afaik it has not been challenged by any HCW, so apparently most HCWs are happy to have it done. But if it were the case that a surgeon who was already in the employ of a trust and who had not had the HepB vaccine was then told he/she would lose their job if they didn't get the HepB jab that would depend on whether they challenged it or not. And who knows how it would go if taken to court. It's unlikely this would happen because I repeat it's to protect the hcw.* no one working within a surgical setting is going to want to leave themselves open to contracting HepB from infected blood product.
As my full facts.org link states upthread Matt Hancock was wrong to say there was legal precedent for mandatory vaccine in healthcare - whether this was deliberate or not who knows, but given this government's record of lying and obfuscating and about-turns I know what I would say about his motivations.
I don't believe this government will proceed with this anyway unless they actually want the nhs to collapse, which is possible I suppose - but I suspect, like vaccine passports, they will threaten and make noises about it but never actually follow through because they hope that the threat alone will push people into getting vaccinated.
Coercion and threats do not work, all they are doing is making more and more people pissed off and suspicious of their motives and who can be suprised when conspiracy theories then start to take hold.
But read the facts people for gods sake. And don't dismiss the lab leak possibility, it has been seriously discussed in the mainstream media for months now, it's not some lunatic fringe theory.