A Constitutional Right?

[Jolly]

Dersh on vaccinations and masks...

https://www.wnd.com/2020/05/alan-dershowitz-state-right-plunge-needle-arm/

[Copper]

@dersh said

Dershowitz added that there are "cases after cases after cases" in which courts have ruled in favor of "reasonable actions to prevent the spread of communicable diseases."

I expect there are reasonable actions other than vaccination.

[Horace]

It seems like a harsh but inevitable truth that the state has the right to do that sort of thing. That said, what are the chances the state would ever enforce this?

[Mik]

Yeah, I see his argument, but I think someone's body is and should remain inviolate. Where else have we compelled all citizens to be medically treated?

I really don't think this will ever come to that.

[jon-nyc]

I don’t even think there’s a case for it unless there are broad categories of people who can’t be vaccinated.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in A Constitutional Right?:

I don’t even think there’s a case for it unless there are broad categories of people who can’t be vaccinated.

What about broad categories of people who refuse to be vaccinated?

[Mik]

Just as today they take their own risk, assuming the vaccine is effective. I'll be first in line, as I will probably consider the vaccine a much lower risk than the virus.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in A Constitutional Right?:

@jon-nyc said in A Constitutional Right?:

I don’t even think there’s a case for it unless there are broad categories of people who can’t be vaccinated.

What about broad categories of people who refuse to be vaccinated?

I think if they’re only endangering themselves and other refuseniks that should be fine. If they are endangering large groups of people who can’t get vaccinated that’s another thing.

[Doctor Phibes]

If the vaccine is only partially effective, then refusing it is liable to increase the risk for everybody.

[jon-nyc]

That’s true.