Big Pharma CEO Blows a Hole in Vaccine Mandates

Vaccine mandates are one of many stifling measures brought on by the ongoing COVID pandemic, a consequence of those trying to "Follow the science" and doing anything but or of government and bureaucrat officials using the opportunity to flex their authoritarian muscles.

The CDC website cites a book chapter by research scholars Kevin Malone and Alan Hinman that describes vaccine mandates as a means of "Drastically reducing infectious diseases in the United States." Mandates present a challenge "When societal interest conflicts with the individual's interest." With vaccine mandates, there is the assumption that "Increased immunization rates result in significantly decreased risk for disease."

Additional benefit is conferred on the unimmunized person because avoidance of the vaccine avoids the risk for any adverse reactions associated with the vaccine.

Are the COVID vaccines providing both individual and community protection? If they are, then a case may be made for vaccine mandates although that is debatable.

When Big Pharma doesn't believe its own spin anymore why should anyone else? Unless, as in the case of corporate media and US government officials, mostly of the Democrat persuasion, they choose to ignore the CEO of the largest vaccine maker, instead regurgitating their own misinformation.

If the Pfizer CEO and CDC Director are correct in their belief that my neighbor being vaccinated won't prevent him from transmitting and me from catching COVID, then why make my neighbor take the vaccine if he chooses not to, any more than mandating him to eat right and exercise?

Eventually, everyone will be exposed and infected, with COVID becoming endemic like seasonal influenza, with a yearly vaccine available based on the best guess of the season's viral strain and vaccines encouraged for those at high risk, just as we do now for the flu vaccine.

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