One of the most toxic effects of vaccine mandates is the further polarization of society, as the “vaccinated camp” and the “unvaccinated camp” are conditioned to despise one another.
Those who are vaccinated are told (falsely) that it’s the unvaccinated who are responsible for prolonging the pandemic and preventing a return to normalcy.
Meanwhile, many unvaccinated people – including tens of millions who have superior natural immunity to COVID – are feeling pure rage as they are fired from jobs, kicked out of colleges, and denied entry to restaurants, simply for making a different health care decision than their neighbor.
Fortunately, voices of reason can still be found. There are many leaders in medicine, business, and law who are strongly in favor of the COVID-19 vaccines, but who think coercive mandates are dreadfully wrong – either as a matter of principle, or for pragmatic reasons.
These voices deserve to be heard. Here are just a few:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
“It’s a medical decision that should be left to the doctor and the patient, not forced on people by the state. There’s no public health reason for a mandate.”
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Dr. Martin Kuldorff
Epidemiologist, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
“Prior COVID disease (many working class) provides better immunity than vaccines (many professionals), so vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical.”
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Dr. Zubin Damania, aka “ZDoggMD”
Stanford-trained physician; Internet personality
“You don’t persuade people through coercion. You don’t persuade people through messaging that is paradoxical and contradictory. That’s not how you do it. You talk to people. Okay, so who are these 80 or 100 million people that aren’t vaccinated, that now the federal mandate is gonna try to coerce?
Okay, how many of them have actually been previously infected with coronavirus and according to the latest data have reasonable immunity against disease? Probably a lot of them. And now you’re telling them, you know what? You can’t have a job, you can’t work, you can’t do X, Y, and Z, unless you get two doses of an mRNA vaccine or a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which we’ve stigmatized already.
Are you crazy? That’s anti-scientific, and guess what? Rational people are gonna look at that and go, ‘Yeah, I don't think so.’”
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Elaine Parker
President, Job Creators Network Foundation
“The Biden administration’s dramatic government overreach will turn an uphill hike to find workers into a 90-degree climb for affected businesses. Nearly one-fifth of U.S. adults are highly skeptical of the vaccine and say they won’t get pricked. A command from Washington will only stiffen resistance. Therefore, the already limited pool of job candidates will shrink further.
And that’s only the tip of the iceberg; employers will inevitably be forced to terminate some existing staff members who refuse to comply with the rule. For example, one Utah small business is expecting to lose about 30% of its workforce once the mandate is implemented. And high employee turnover can be expensive.
To be clear, my organization is not anti-vaccine. We encourage Americans to get inoculated. However, it’s a decision that should be made in the exam room, not the lunch room.”
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Wesley Smith
Bioethics expert; Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute
“Then there is my tribe, the pro-vaccine/anti-mandate middle-grounders. We see the vaccine as the best chance to mitigate the virus, and we strongly encourage the hesitant to be inoculated. At the same time, we understand that COVID isn’t nearly as dangerous as smallpox. Nor is it polio. Unlike those plagues, the lethal threat is mostly limited to the elderly, the vast majority of whom have already been vaccinated.
Those in my tribe worry that if the pro-mandate tribe forces the hesitant to get the shots, the last vestiges of comity in the country will be shattered. Gone will be the days in which reasonable people were allowed to disagree and remain friends.”
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