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Originally Posted by Liam-
You can’t force people to do something they don’t want to do, if people choose not too take the vaccine, they’re idiots, but that’s their right, they just shouldn’t be allowed to have the benefits that people who have been vaccinated are allowed, you make a choice, you face the consequences
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Speaking of "benefits", I think if the UK does enforce it, this will be how they end up doing it. There won't be jackboots kicking in doors and pinning people down to stick a needle in their arm... ... ... they'll just put pressure on employers to make vaccine passports mandatory in the workplace, and also make Covid vaccination a requirement for receiving Universal Credit benefits. They can do that quite easily; if vaccines are mandatory in workplaces then refusing vaccination without medical reasons can be deemed a barrier to seeking work, and the benefits can then be "sanctioned" down to next to nothing.
People who can't work, and can't get benefits, are probably going to find themselves backed into a corner enough to get vaccinated.
Final hold-outs will be people who are self employed who can't be caught in either of those traps. But
if they start making it mandatory for businesses people to require tradespeople etc. show their vaccination status before entering... and encourage households to do the same...
Note again, I'm actually against all of the above, I think this is basically the same as it being mandatory, and a step too far. Education and encouragement should be the way to do it (and again, 95% uptake should be more than enough).
My exception to this is healthcare - I do think vaccination should be mandatory to work in healthcare. People have the right to refuse vaccination... they don't have the right to put vulnerable patients at risk. They have NEVER had that right; all sorts of documentation is required to work with vulnerable people and always has been, long before Covid. My wife had to get her immunities checked and vaccinations updated before she worked in addictions services, for example (Hep B double vaccine, measles booster). People are acting like this is a "new" condition of employment. It isn't!