For Omicron? And even if. It is great if it is a result of my personal decision to get vaccinated. It is awful to force others to get vaccinated, especially if most claims regarding efficacy get weakened a lot over time and people ignore that. Vaccine mandates and mandatory passports everywhere have failed and we should be happy about that.
Who also supports forced vaccinations like in Rwanda?
https://www.dw.com/en/rwanda-forcibly-vaccinating-people-aga...
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e3.htm?s_cid=mm...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/21/cdc-studies...
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
As for Rwanda, that’s moving the goalposts — there are many things which the Rwandan government has done which most of us do not approve of.
I am only moving the goalpost back to its initial position. Vaccine mandates are draconian - at least when the data is so weak as for SARS-CoV-2.
No, you're conflating two separate things to try to make a weak case appear stronger. Part of living in a society is accepting restrictions on your personal choices which impact those around you. Vaccination mandates are one of the big public health success stories since they reduce spread, load on the medical system, and the cost to society of having to care for people who are no longer as productive. Polio was significant asymptomatic, too — 70% of people had no symptoms and 25% had only mild symptoms, with a fatality rate under 1% — but we almost eradicated it by using public health measures like requiring vaccination to attend schools.
The key difference is that these restrictions are linked to the activities which vaccines make safer: prior to the Republican Party choosing to politicize the issue, ~95% of American school children were vaccinated against common diseases. Someone who objected to that didn't have a paramilitary squad track them down, they just had to homeschool, not travel to many countries, etc. so they bore the cost of their decision rather than everyone else. That's a pretty important difference compared to what allegedly happened in some parts of Rwanda.
Like using Polio for making the case for mandatory SARS-CoV-2 vaccines look stronger?
Smallpox and measles mandates worked.
And which western/first world nations actually had COVID mandates? The US sure didn’t.
(Vaccine mandates) and (mandatory passports everywhere) have failed
> And which western/first world nations actually had COVID mandates? The US sure didn’t.
Germany, Austria, Australia, France, Italy, ...