Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for someone my age. Yet there are, it seems to me, interesting, difficult questions surrounding the state’s role in promoting or mandating vaccines. The goal here is to start a conversation
There is no individual freedom when power and coercion are used under the guise of 'we're the government and we're here to help! It's for your own good; or the good of 'society' '. When an entity with the power of the sword, the media (in turn compromised and funded by pharmaceutical companies who also compromise and fund the FDA), and virtually all institutions (universities rely heavily on government funding), even shutting down churches, it is impossible to believe that corruption, greed, and the love of power and control will not serve itself and its own survival rather than the survival and freedom of the individual.
Paranoia over disease and death and the ability to spread that paranoia and mandate its rather bizarre 'treatment' is an example of the 'cure' not only being worse than, but also having nothing really to do with, the real disease.
Well written and rather objective, considering your personal decision. As an anarchist, I'm opposed to vaccine mandates. The other side of the coin to this issue, is the way our current regime not only mandates medical procedures, but deprives some of the freedom to use 'unapproved' medical interventions--like Vitamin D! (see: https://www.fox29.com/news/doctor-accused-of-deceptively-claiming-his-vitamin-d-zinc-supplements-could-treat-covid-19)
There is no individual freedom when power and coercion are used under the guise of 'we're the government and we're here to help! It's for your own good; or the good of 'society' '. When an entity with the power of the sword, the media (in turn compromised and funded by pharmaceutical companies who also compromise and fund the FDA), and virtually all institutions (universities rely heavily on government funding), even shutting down churches, it is impossible to believe that corruption, greed, and the love of power and control will not serve itself and its own survival rather than the survival and freedom of the individual.
Paranoia over disease and death and the ability to spread that paranoia and mandate its rather bizarre 'treatment' is an example of the 'cure' not only being worse than, but also having nothing really to do with, the real disease.