I've had a problem getting this written, as it seems like there's something more, or new (is it?) every day. I do like to be up to date with my posts, even when they are rapidly outdated by the next new thing to come about.
But, my main topic was and is about the issue of people's rights. There has been no major change on that front. Some places are refusing to demand them, some places are only demanding proof, and the politicians are squawking and seesawing on the topic.
That means, to me, that I can safely offer my opinion and give my reasons why.
I don't think any of my readers are advocates of violence against fat old ladies with bum legs sitting in their hermitage.
Sure hope not.
I said previously that masking is not a civil rights issue. It is an on/off or yes/no situation wherein each person has the right to decide their level of participation. As with all such issues, there are consequences to the choices made, either way.
I do NOT think the same way about the vaccines.
I do not think anyone should be forced to be vaccinated.
That is, no one who can think for themselves. And the caretakers of babies, children, and anyone mentally impaired should study and think long and hard over what they will have done to another person. Weigh the risks. Weigh the likelihoods. Weigh the evidence.
Deciding for another person is a weighty matter. In my opinion, even moreso than for yourself.
I do not think vaccines should be mandated.
Doing so is a violation of the right to bodily autonomy.
It is forcing a foreign substance known to be rooted in a harmful medium.
In almost all other ways, this is not allowed.
Rape is the most obvious form of "sharing" outside elements by forcing them into another body. And our understanding of rape has been growing, so that we are more aware of the wrongness of this action.
From low level battery to high definition assault, no one is allowed to put things in someone else's body without their consent.
From ancient slavery to current human trafficking and the selling of children, no one is allowed to put others in a situation where they must let others put things in their bodies without their consent.
Sick people who spit or knowingly force their foreign matter into someone else's body have been, are being charged with attempted murder.
Society -- and governments -- know that these are wrongs.
They would still be wrongs if the parents were selling their children.
They would still be wrongs if the parents were renting out their daughters.
They would still be wrongs if the batterer or murderer says "She's MY wife." (Or boyfriend, or ex, or my best friend from kindergarten.)
It is a violation of their right to their own body.
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Now, I do not mean to say the vaccines are a bad thing.
I don't mean to say that they are or aren't nonsense, or that they are a conspiracy, or that they are unnecessary.
I'm not saying the science is bad, or wrong, either.
I'm saying that I (every individual) have the right to decide what goes in my body.
And when, and where, and how, and, most lately, how often.
That is my right, and no one else's.
