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Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by effie on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:25PM (#27668353)
> At the end of the day, what really matters is vaccinating as many people as soon as possible.

This position is absolutist and a mark of a totalitarian thinking and a large portion of population does not share it.

For most people, individual people freedoms matter too and in democracy, these freedoms are stronger than the institutional desideratum to vaccinate as many people as technically possible. What is best for the whole country isn't always best for the individual living there.

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Re:Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna by manwe150 on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @12:53AM (#27671923)
Curiously, I recently learned that George Washington imposed a mandate on the troops that required them to get the new vaccine, the first ever such idea. This means we owe the existence of our freedoms to mandatory vaccinations.

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/smallpox-george-washington...

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