Should it mandatory?

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Andrew Lloyd Webber has said that vaccine refusenicks are "selfish" and likened them to drink drivers who put other road users lives at risk. He stopped short of suggesting vaccination should be compulsory however compulsory jabs were introduced in the UK with the Vaccination Act 1853 to combat smallpox. Other countriesfollowed later and smallpox was eventuallyeradicated.

The death rate with smallpox was about the same as Covid (but it did cause serious disfigurement) so it begs the question: Why not make vaccination compulsory now?

I still have my vaccination booklet from when I traveled extensively and it was essential to have up to date stamps for Yellow Fever a bunch of other diseases. Some countries still insist on proof of such vaccination.

Polio has been virtually eradicated (and is only endemic in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan) as a result of determined vaccination programmes led by the WHO.

It begs the question: Do we have an moral obligation to get vaccinated?

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The question is very childish in my opinion.

Everybody should be vaccinated unless they have grounded reasons for not doing so or not doing so at the moment and the right to live in peace and not to be stalked with such moral questions.

I feel I have a moral obligation to stay healthy and keep on saving the NHS hundreds of pounds per year for treatments I can avoid or prevent managing my condition as I do. And since there is no cure for my condition, what I do is not just really very important to me, it is something that should be appreciated by others and not ignored or vituperated in this way.

I am in touch with my GP on a monthly when not weekly basis. So that my choices are very well documented.

If I say that it is not time for me to get vaccinated against Covid, exposing my already compromised immune system to risks of further misbehaving I am not prepared to handle at this time, and the risk I pose to others and to myself in doing so is really minimal or non existent, well... I do not want to be bothered and stressed with questions like these.

I am not anti-vax.

Next year, when possibly I will have sorted out other issues and I will be in a more stable condition with work, housing and mysterious symptoms I have now under investigation with blood tests and self-care experiments, when I will have resumed treatment from other minor issues left behind because Covid policies do not allow me to have it with NHS, when I will have completed another private health therapy I am paying myself, when I will be able to see friends and relatives again because the overall policies and risks will be lower for everybody and I will be able to travel again, then I will be in a situation of dealing with the covid risk for myself and with the risk I pose to others with and / or without vaccination in a completely different and in my view safer set of circumstances.

In the meantime I will continue to practice social distancing and be quite isolated so... in conclusion, I am getting quite sick and tired of people wanting to give me lectures about morality of vaccines.

Of course you have the freedom to express your opinion but please consider you are not entitled to lecture others about healthy choices.