The arguments are elevating: forced vaccines (for the public good) or freedom of choice.
I will choose freedom.
Ayn Rand on the ‘public good”:
“I could say to you that you do not serve the public good— that nobody’s good can be achieved at the price of human sacrifices—that when you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction. I could say to you that you will and can achieve nothing but universal devastation—as any looter must when he runs out of victims. I could say it, but I won’t.
“It is not your particular policy that I challenge, but your moral premise. If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and I were asked to immolate myself for the sake of creatures who wanted to survive at the price of my blood, if I were asked to serve the interests of society apart from, above and against my own—I would refuse, I would reject it as the most contemptible evil, I would fight it with every power I possess, I would fight the whole of mankind, if one minute were all I could last before I were murdered, I would fight in the full confidence of the justice of my battle and of a living being’s right to exist.
“Let there be no misunderstanding about me. If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!
“So long as a concept such as “the public interest” (or the “social” or “national” or “international” interest) is regarded as a valid principle to guide legislation—lobbies and pressure groups will necessarily continue to exist. Since there is no such entity as “the public,” since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that “the public interest” supersedes private interests and rights, can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
“Since there is no rational justification for the sacrifice of some men to others, there is no objective criterion by which such a sacrifice can be guided in practice. All “public interest” legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined, undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials.
“The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle.”
The excuse of “the public good” opens the door to tyranny.
All vaccines have some risk. If that were not true, there would be no National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, no reduced liability for pharmaceutical companies through that program, no special arm of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (the Vaccine Court) to settle claims of vaccine injury, and no Vaccination Information Sheets mandated by the federal government to inform parents and vaccine recipients of possible adverse reactions.
Many will say vaccines pose little risk and millions get vaccinated, so any one individual’s risk is small.
Tell that to the families who are already dealing with vaccine injuries. Tell parents, wives and husbands their lived experiences are wrong. The vaccine injuries are being ignored.
Yet ‘public’ conversations about vaccination — in the media and government — sidestep the injury and personal beliefs and choices by characterizing all vaccine dissent as wrongheaded and antiscience. Such an argument treats scientific evidence (it hasn’t been tested long enough to actually know) as the only basis for healthy civic behavior. There is no room for an acknowledgment of alternative experiences or belief systems. They only talk about “those other people” who are crazy, dangerous, stupid, and duped.
Smart people know better. They do research. Try researching Pfizer Pharma – see the penalties since 2000 costing the company around $5 billion.
And that is just Pfizer.
And when it comes to vaccines, the American taxpayer is footing the bill for vaccine injuries – both in health and claims from injury. Not Pfizer or other pharma companies.
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. " Ronald Reagan