I do understand principle, and can sympathize with it. But it’s not really a winning fight. The restriction that the various governors have done show that.
I don’t really want to force the COVID vaccine, but I’d rather force that continue with our current mess. I had more questionable vaccines in ROTC than this one.
You and your wife may say now that you accept the risk of Covid, but I’ve yet to see someone keep that level of faith once they or a loved one ended up in the icu.
And forced treatment and confinement over disease have a long history in the US.
If you don’t think we haven’t forced compliance with vaccination in the past, you don’t know the history that well. Polio was forced at first, as was smallpox.
This isn’t new, we often force treatments, with the caveat of “due process of law”. Look up the quarantine laws. Or for that matter, look up the mental health commitment laws and in MN the Jarvis hearing.
I do agree that there have been other diseases that have been similar, or perhaps worse that we have not indulged in this level of mass hysteria. I’d gladly see laws changed, but I’m arguing with what is currently in place and apparently agreed to (so far the state Supreme Court hasn’t shut down the governor’s emergency declarations even though it’s been the better part of a year...