Almost as if reducing mortality/hospitalization is an irrelevant metric to you.
Almost as if an abstract social construct as “rights” is more important to you than actual health.
Almost as if an abstract social construct as “rights” is more important to you than actual health.
Like if a group of people banded together and said that they didn't want to associate with unvaccinated people, should they have the freedom to do that without interference from the unvaccinated?
Your freedom not to get vaccinated? Evidently, since getting vaccinated is a medical procedure. I can't force you to go through it.
I can physically attack you if I want to and in your very own words my freedom is infinitely more important than your health.
What is confusing you?
What on earth makes you think your personal freedom is more important than the health of others?
You have no right to harm others.
Don't like it, leave. Seriously.
Honestly, you're making arguments (in multiple comments) that make you look petulant, rather than providing a reasonable argument againt vaccine mandates.
As for George Washington, if you are attempting to make the argument that the government has a right to inoculate it’s military soldiers during war time against a disease, so be it, there is your precedent to argue upon. Furthermore, Washington has a habit of requiring many things, including the Militia Acts which required every able bodied male to own a military firearm. I don’t currently see an argument to enforce that idea. Pick and choose.
But using his small pox inoculation program from the 1700’s and a tiny military of rag tag farmer soldiers as a basis to go after an entire free and educated society of hundreds of millions in the 2000’s for an experimental vaccine, you are stretching this further than it could go.
The information is out there for people to make decisions now. They’ve made it, make a better argument.
I don't see anybody gearing up to have a civil war over vaccines, just a bunch of "make a better argument for why you have the right to tell me I have to do this, with economic or social consequences if I don't" responses. The military already exited folks who didn't comply with COVID vaccines, and the Biden administration has already requested that the SC officially rule on workplace mandates (https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21A244/206997/2021...).
You are the one who seems to have no clue why nations form, why this particular nation came into being, and what demands it has made over and over upon its citizens for the benefit of their fellow Americans. If you do not like it then you are the one who should leave. We, the many, are happy to show you the door and will help you pack your bags. Seriously.
Is this what you’re saying?
Galileo is rolling over in his grave.
Edit: also you didn’t decide shit.
In my proffessional experience faux-perfectionists tend to be rather incompetent pragmatists.
Strength in numbers. Economies of scale. Division of labour.
The collective well-being of individuals.
If you don’t like all the social perks and safety nets you are enjoying - go be a hermit.