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Literally all they had to do was make this vaccine optional. Say "hey this vaccine is available. Here is the data we have. We recommend taking it, but of course that is your own decision."

But because of the attempts to force people to take the vaccine (which I did take, btw), trust has already been eroded.

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We actually had a term for that, informed consent.

I don't know where you think someone was forced to take the vaccine. It was always optional. It's just that there were additional controls, like going to indoor restaurants -- one of the very highest risk activities for disease spread -- or additional testing requirements.

In the US, nearly a 100 million people still have not taken the vaccine. If there was an effort to force anyone to take it, it sure doesn't seem to have been successful.

Yes it merely cost them their livelihood.

Cheers to you, you are factually correct. No one physically, with force, injected anyone with a vaccine against their will.

Now that the moment has passed, I find it amazing people are still able to maintain the mental gymnastic / reality control that the GP is espousing (unless it's just to be argumentative). You can see how all sorts of human rights abuses get justified once you realize how people can play with language and definitions

There were a few videos of what appeared to be forceful vaccinations but internet videos are hard to cite as real evidence. That officer and medical team could have been forcefully injecting anything into that poor bloke

I'm not familiar with that situation. Many very cowardly and misguided things happen when people are convinced, coerced and congratulated for adherence to dictates.

I would not be surprised at all if it did happen to a large number of people in disadvantaged positions. We know school teachers were bribing children with pizza or attempted to subvert the law and circumvent parental consent.

These people all believe they hold the moral high ground. As does the commenter above. This is "service to the community". Protecting you from something dangerous. With government approval

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