OPINION: Compulsion is being proposed as the way to address factors affecting vaccination uptake: low confidence, complacency and convenience. The impact of mandates in European countries was assessed by the European Union-funded Asset project, which found no clear link between vaccine uptake and mandatory vaccination. Mandatory vaccination would entail the state appointing itself authority over the most sacrosanct – our bodily sovereignty. The National Party is discussing, and ACT is proposing, vaccine coercion, while Winston Peters has personally endorsed mandatory vaccination. Social Credit has an overriding principle in its constitution – that the individual is more important than the state – and it opposes any form of political authoritarianism, including mandatory vaccinations.

Source: Stuff December 18, 2019 15:56 UTC