It is in my opinion also not reasonable to ask any healthy person to accept a medical intervention that has a risk to them because it might "protect" someone else. No one should be forced to accept a medical risk for someone else's sake, period. We don't even coerce people to donate blood, and that's relatively low-risk.
It's not necessarily unreasonable to ask people to do things that involve no risk to help protect someone else. For example, if one kid in preschool has a severe peanut allergy, asking everyone else to refrain from bringing peanut butter for lunch might dismay some toddler who loves pb&j, but it doesn't impose any potential risk of harm on others - but that is not true of vaccines.
One can debate the topic of how much the majority should be inconvenienced to accommodate the minority in various situations, but the bottom line is that "inconvenience" is fundamentally different from "subject to a medical risk."
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Re: Thanks, gee, my blood pressure had been a bit low...
Date: 2024-11-20 07:15 pm (UTC)It's not necessarily unreasonable to ask people to do things that involve no risk to help protect someone else. For example, if one kid in preschool has a severe peanut allergy, asking everyone else to refrain from bringing peanut butter for lunch might dismay some toddler who loves pb&j, but it doesn't impose any potential risk of harm on others - but that is not true of vaccines.
One can debate the topic of how much the majority should be inconvenienced to accommodate the minority in various situations, but the bottom line is that "inconvenience" is fundamentally different from "subject to a medical risk."