I suppose a reasonable alternative is let people refuse to be vaccinated, but hold them legally liable if it can be shown that they transmitted the virus to somebody else who later got seriously ill or died. Charging them with negligent homicide seems reasonable to me in the case of someone dying, or sue for lost wages, medical expenses, etc. When a person makes selfish choices based on ignorance and misinformation that end up resulting in harm to others there should be consequences and it should hurt.
Would you be willing to accept the same punishment if within a year 40% of vaccinated develop autoimmune diseases?
How many vaccines have had that higher risk of autoimmune diseases, after a year?
As far as I'm aware, chronic health conditions due to vaccines tend to occur within the first couple of weeks of the dose, not spring up years later. The most risky vaccines are those which contain, attenuated, live virus, which isn't the case for any of the currently approved COVID-19 vaccines.
There have never been mass deployments of the types of vaccine most people are getting for covid, so we have no idea what to expect a year from now.
The messenger RNA vaccines are completely new. I know the adenovirus vector based ones are an older technology, but don't know how widely they've been applied. This is partly why I felt safer, with the AZ, than Pfizer jab.
People who don't know any better, fear things, which are either extremely unlikely, or impossible, such as getting a massive shock of a car battery; well maybe if you're hands have been soaking in salt water and you have a cut, but even then, it won't be bad, unless perhaps you already have a heart condition. There are also plenty of things which we know can be perfectly safe, such as driverless trains, but many laypeople fear them, because they don't full understand the technology behind it.
The question is: does there a plausible mechanism exist, by which a vaccination could cause complications, out of the blue, years later? I'm not doctor, but if there was such a possibility, then I would hope doctors would be warning us about it.
I'm curious as to whether Dave has had a coronavirus vaccine or not.
You'll have to forever continue to be curious.
I will not virtue signal my medical status, I refuse to be part of the social media circus on this.
I agree it's none of our business. If you want to talk about it, that's fine, but it's not a bad thing keeping it private.