The argument for mandatory vaccination rests on two fundamentally contradictory claims. The first claim is undeniably correct: the vaccines work. In fact, they are so effective at preventing serious illness or death that, for the vaccinated, COVID has essentially been transformed into the common cold.
Yet, while this is correctly cited as the argument for why most should get vaccinated, advocates then implicitly suggest the opposite when alleging that the unvaccinated pose a threat to the vaccinated and, therefore, must be forced to take the vaccine. That claim is dangerous and divisive propaganda that has no basis in fact.
The odds of a vaccinated person dying from COVID are 1 in 137,000.
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