When it comes to managing the vaccination process in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it could well be that rules will\u00a0 be put in place to restrict the movement of un-vaccinated persons in the interest of public safety.\u00a0 The operative word is \u201ccould\u201d, as at the moment there is a lot of discussion going on that front.<\/p>\n
I can see situations where being vaccinated will be mandatory just to ensure that people don\u2019t turn themselves into a lethal weapon and unwittingly end up killing someone because they are COVID positive \u2013 although they don\u2019t know this and are a-symptomatic\u00a0 for the virus –\u00a0 and then give it to someone else who might die from it. This might happen in situations where social distancing isn\u2019t an option \u2013 such as on airplanes – or when a population group is particularly vulnerable such as senior care homes where the vast majority of deaths (80% in Canada) have occurred.<\/p>\n
It might be said that such restrictions infringe on personal rights and freedoms, but I see this more as just another way to ensure each other\u2019s safety, e.g.,\u00a0 such as restricting vehicles to speed limits or one-way traffic or mandatory stop signs so we don\u2019t all end up killing each other when driving our cars.<\/p>\n
Reasonable people with some sense of social responsibility should not take issue with this, but it is clear that not everyone is that way inclined or appears to have evolved\u00a0 to the point that they are capable of thinking that way.<\/p>\n
To take this latter point a little further, no doubt that in the end,\u00a0 when all this COVID trouble\u00a0 is over – here’s hoping! – there are going to be people who will proudly proclaim that they were able to survive this plague without being vaccinated or, for that matter,\u00a0 without wearing a mask or social distancing, so what was the big fuss all about?<\/p>\n
However, it is less likely that they survived the pandemic unscathed regardless\u00a0 of their non-adherence to recommended public safety measures in light of COVID. More likely, it was the fact that the vast majority of people around them did\u00a0 follow the recommended procedures such as masking up and getting vaccinated and so prevented the anti-vaxxers\u00a0 from\u00a0 becoming infected\u00a0 with this potentially deadly virus even if they themselves were infected with it.<\/p>\n
No, you couldn’t prove that of course, but you shouldn’t have to as this is merely an appeal to reason – and\u00a0 it is an unfortunate fact that, from the looks of it,\u00a0 not everyone is in possession of this faculty, and so they will not be able to get the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When it comes to managing the vaccination process in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it could well be that rules will\u00a0 be put in place to restrict the movement of un-vaccinated persons in the interest of public safety.\u00a0 The operative … Continue reading