Is It Our Civic Duty to Get Vaccinated and To Be Mandated To Do So?
I keep hearing people say that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is our civic duty and that because people refuse the science and are selfish, we need mandates to coerce people to do so. Yet, we hear on a regular basis how the vaccine causes all kinds of adverse reactions and that the immunity starts to wane after about six to eight months (even according to Israeli studies, since that country is ahead of us on the timing of the pandemic and it uses Pfizer). Even if the vaccine does prevent hospitalization for a few-month window, do we really need the jab when the severity of the virus itself is extremely low for those who are not elderly or do not have comorbidities? Is it our civic duty to get vaccinated with an experimental drug that does not have a proven record and does not seem to prevent the spread of the virus? Should we morally and ethically require mandates across society, and if so, do they work?
“My Mandates Are Working,” Says the President
When people's livelihoods are threatened, they tend to be intimidated into bowing to the monarch's whim. This does not, however, mean that you have won on the battlefield of ideas, and to the contrary, coercion is the method of authoritarians and cowards that hide behind an iron fist and ignore the proper channels of government. So, if by mandates working you mean that you have forced people into compliance against their will in order to drive the numbers up, perhaps that will turn out to be true; but if the standard is convincing people through voluntary means, which a free society requires, that your desired outcome is for the public's interest, perhaps success is not what is being displayed.
You have bragged about how vaccine mandates work because 99% of employees at workplaces that will be subject to your unconstitutional edict have now been vaccinated. Yet, common sense would tell us that if these companies fired employees that refused to get vaccinated, of course the vaccination rates would be almost as high as they can get. Is it that more people are getting vaccinated or that people are leaving their jobs, thus meaning that the remaining workers have been injected? You could get 100% compliance by mandating that everyone get vaccinated or be killed, but would that mean that the mandates were successful or that the government has armed agents working on its behalf to violently convince people to submit? Under the current environment, people are being threatened with the loss of their means of survival, and because of this, many people will likely give in to the power of the federal government.
Is It Our Civic Duty to Get Vaccinated and Why Should We Not Use Mandates?
Why do you and the authoritarians in charge get to determine what our civic duty is? I do not believe that anyone alive today had a say in the government and society in which they were born, nor has everyone necessarily consented to the powerful government that has arisen and disregarded the Bill of Rights on many occasions, so the concept of civic duty is a matter of perspective. Many people believe that the vaccines are harmful and unnecessary (based on actual data) and that the Covid narrative does not match the reality of the situation, so forcing an experimental medical procedure on people is unethical.
Was it the civic duty of the Tuskegee Airmen to participate in the Syphilis Study? Was it the civic duty of Japanese Americans to be locked up in concentration camps during World War II (something that the overwhelming majority of Americans supported) in order to prevent espionage and "protect" Americans? Was it the civic duty of our founders to just shut up and pay their taxes to the Crown for the protection that the British Empire afforded? Many people believe that this is similar and that the push for vaccination, which ignores the science of natural immunity and promotes government-corporate partnerships that lead to profit and corruption and increased control over people's lives, is being done for reasons other than public health. Why is it our civic duty to support these ulterior motives?
If we really lived in a free country, we would be debating these issues, not censoring information, and attempting to convince people of the merits of our arguments. Instead, those in charge and the majority of people want to force their will on others, which runs contrary to the founding of our nation. Therefore, it is actually patriotic and our civic duty to resist the tyranny that desires our full compliance and blind faith in institutions and threatens to destroy our liberty, freedom of choice, and republic (executive orders and mandates issued without legislatures are really just the acts of monarchs).
“My Mandates Are Working,” Says the President
When people's livelihoods are threatened, they tend to be intimidated into bowing to the monarch's whim. This does not, however, mean that you have won on the battlefield of ideas, and to the contrary, coercion is the method of authoritarians and cowards that hide behind an iron fist and ignore the proper channels of government. So, if by mandates working you mean that you have forced people into compliance against their will in order to drive the numbers up, perhaps that will turn out to be true; but if the standard is convincing people through voluntary means, which a free society requires, that your desired outcome is for the public's interest, perhaps success is not what is being displayed.
You have bragged about how vaccine mandates work because 99% of employees at workplaces that will be subject to your unconstitutional edict have now been vaccinated. Yet, common sense would tell us that if these companies fired employees that refused to get vaccinated, of course the vaccination rates would be almost as high as they can get. Is it that more people are getting vaccinated or that people are leaving their jobs, thus meaning that the remaining workers have been injected? You could get 100% compliance by mandating that everyone get vaccinated or be killed, but would that mean that the mandates were successful or that the government has armed agents working on its behalf to violently convince people to submit? Under the current environment, people are being threatened with the loss of their means of survival, and because of this, many people will likely give in to the power of the federal government.
Is It Our Civic Duty to Get Vaccinated and Why Should We Not Use Mandates?
Why do you and the authoritarians in charge get to determine what our civic duty is? I do not believe that anyone alive today had a say in the government and society in which they were born, nor has everyone necessarily consented to the powerful government that has arisen and disregarded the Bill of Rights on many occasions, so the concept of civic duty is a matter of perspective. Many people believe that the vaccines are harmful and unnecessary (based on actual data) and that the Covid narrative does not match the reality of the situation, so forcing an experimental medical procedure on people is unethical.
Was it the civic duty of the Tuskegee Airmen to participate in the Syphilis Study? Was it the civic duty of Japanese Americans to be locked up in concentration camps during World War II (something that the overwhelming majority of Americans supported) in order to prevent espionage and "protect" Americans? Was it the civic duty of our founders to just shut up and pay their taxes to the Crown for the protection that the British Empire afforded? Many people believe that this is similar and that the push for vaccination, which ignores the science of natural immunity and promotes government-corporate partnerships that lead to profit and corruption and increased control over people's lives, is being done for reasons other than public health. Why is it our civic duty to support these ulterior motives?
If we really lived in a free country, we would be debating these issues, not censoring information, and attempting to convince people of the merits of our arguments. Instead, those in charge and the majority of people want to force their will on others, which runs contrary to the founding of our nation. Therefore, it is actually patriotic and our civic duty to resist the tyranny that desires our full compliance and blind faith in institutions and threatens to destroy our liberty, freedom of choice, and republic (executive orders and mandates issued without legislatures are really just the acts of monarchs).
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