Understand that your position seems to be that you want to disallow any societal pressure ... in a society in which you choose to be a part of. Noone is forcing anyone to get vaccinated. There are, however, societally imposed sanctions upon those which refuse to act to support the general welfare of the society.
It is not that we cannot see the force of your argument. You raise very good points in that all societies impose laws upon their members. These laws should be kept to a minimum so as not to trespass too severely on the beliefs and individual rights of these members. Those rights include life (certainly the unvaccinated are taking their lives in their hands and accepting a higher risk to their health), liberty (obviously liberty can be curtailed if the member transgresses against the law), and the pursuit of happiness (well, this last year saw a lot of temporary measures that tromped all over that one). So usually the argument is made that individual rights should be preserved up to the point where the exercising of that right causes undue harm to others. That is the crux of the argument here and one that has a very divided opinion. I think Biden does a horrible job at messaging in that he calls the current COVID cases "the pandemic of the unvaccinated" and yet says that these unvaccinated people should be forced to get the vaccine to prevent them from spreading the disease. Yet vaccines are readily available and nearly everyone that wanted to get vaccinated has been. So you are impinging on the rights of the unvaccinated, who are accepting the risks to their health, with not a law; but an executive order. This reduction of freedom sets a precedent for future events like this and makes it easier for the government to make similar rulings on other perceived public safety topics. We do not see the public health benefit in this case being more important than the preservation of inalienable rights.
Bless this man. He’s really unhappy and cheesed off about it. I would be, too. His words to others who may choose not to get this thing stood out for me; stay strong.
Keep in mind this is not the first mandated vaccine. It is the first many Americans remember and it is the first that all but the oldest Americans are the age of majority for ( thus being able to decide for themselves whether to get it or not in the beginning, but it is not the first mandated vaccine. As to a vaccine passport that has two parts ( the first being that this would be FAR from the only vaccine that is mandated to travel overseas ( different countries have different requirements and some have more than others, but it would not be the only one. The other part of that is I am wondering if the mandates ( not so much for healthcare workers or certain other jobs, but more for concerts, ball games things like that will be as big once this settles down and the hospitals are not so overrun that people are dying of non-co-vid related things because mostly the unvaxed are taking up too many beds. The only way to know that is time. I WILL say that as of now I DO support mandates for such activities and I DO ( and will no matter how longer this goes support a private employer's right to set such a requirement for employment.
I can tell you why it is mandated to enter the city to keep co-vid out as much as they can. Yes people who took the vaccine can get and spread it, but it has been shown that when/if they do they have fewer issues and are somewhat less likely to do either.
