Vaccine Mandates: The Case For & Against

I have no intention of debating the merits of taking the vaccine or not, I’m not an immunologist or infectious disease specialist—and surprisingly, haven’t even played one on TV, not yet anyways. There’s points and data on each side of that particular debate, but I’m merely a Substack writer and have no business telling anyone whether they should or should not get vaccinated. There’s far better sources for that and I’ll leave it to them.

But what I wanted to at least attempt to tackle in this post are the arguments most frequently made FOR and AGAINST vaccine mandates.

Although no one—so far—is going to come to your home, tie you to a chair and inject you, the restrictions for those choosing not to get vaccinated have been significant, depending on your jurisdiction. These include home quarantine, loss of job, inability to go to any stores, inability to dine out, and restrictions on travel—including not even being able to leave your country, not even with a negative PCR test and a welc…