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Freedom, vaccines and hypocrisy – Emilio Campmany

In the West, no one has yet dared to make the covid-19 vaccine mandatory. At most, it has been required that the vaccination status be accredited in order to access according to which sites or to practice according to which profession. And even so, there are many places where they resist imposing immunization even in this very restrained way because it supposes a limit to freedom. So the debate centers on whether or not it is legitimate or legal to demand vaccination with coercive measures directed against those who do not want to be vaccinated.

This debate would make some sense if freedom were a supreme value among us. But here freedom is increasingly restricted with much less justification than in the case of vaccines. For example, the Treasury has the right to investigate where we reside to determine where we should pay our taxes, something that is justified because some taxpayers claim to reside in places where taxes are lower when in fact they reside in others where they pay more. That same Treasury has the right to know the movements of our current accounts to determine if our tax returns are true. Not only, but they deny us the right to pay cash payments that are greater than a certain amount in order to track the money with which we satisfy them. Forcing us to pay by credit card or bank transfer means that the State can accumulate tons of information about our economic life and know what we buy and where. Our communications are constantly monitored and the State can know what we say or tell each other. Our streets are full of cameras that monitor our movements. It is assumed that all this information can only be collected by the State with judicial authorization. But such authorization only serves to be able to use the data collected in a lawsuit. Nothing prevents you from using it, without that authorization, for other purposes.

In such a society, what is the point of the debate on the obligation to be vaccinated? Vaccines not only save the lives of those vaccinated. If this were the case, the freedom to be vaccinated would be relatively acceptable, although in terms of road safety, for example, the use of a seat belt or a helmet is mandatory, despite being exclusively intended to protect the user. The obligation to be vaccinated is much more enforceable because they not only protect the vaccinated, but also benefit those who could become infected when they come into contact with the unvaccinated.

In a Europe where they want to force children to be educated in LGTBI sexuality in schools without regard to the opinion of their parents, it turns out that vaccines cannot be compulsory. The only reason that is reached for this is that, while Governments impose restrictions on freedoms without charge that, for whatever reason, they enjoy good press, they do not dare to impose others that are so much more necessary for fear that they are not as welcome. It is difficult to find a case of greater hypocrisy.

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