Why I’m for Covid vaccines, but against vaccine mandates – Dr. Peter Attia

> They claim that hospitals should have accepted prior infection for workers as a valid exemption, and thereby avoided firings and resignations.

This is an argument for a modified hospital worker mandate, not an argument against vaccine mandates.

Additionally, the author confuses himself further by listing a patient unable to get care because his doctor refused to see an unvaccinated patient as a harm from mandates. Removing mandates which aren't yet in place does not change who that doctor would see. On the contrary, a mandate would have solved that issue because it would mean that patient would be vaccinated.

The status of people going to hospital is largely irrelevant; the goal should be to ensure that fewer people do. We know that the government telling people to lose weight is not particularly effective, because, again, governments in the developed world have been trying for decades without much success. More direct methods (eg the sugar taxes/minimum pricing that some European countries have introduced) are looking to be a bit more effective, but you're looking at a slow. However, covid vaccines are known to be very effective, and can be given quickly, so encouraging people to get those is appropriate.

Policies to increase vaccination rates have worked spectacularly. That's why governments use them.