Too often do I see vaccine mandate arguments crudely distorting the responses made against mandatory inoculations. Whether that be because of a superiority complex or a difficulty to address hard viewpoints, I will try today to present the steelman against vaccine mandates and hope to elicit feedback from others.
Your argument against "Covid cases put an undue strain on our healthcare system and economy" is flawed. There are people dying in Canada because their "elective" surgeries have had to be postponed because wards are crammed with the unvaccinated. At least one person has died in the ER waiting for trreatment, again because of the hospital was overloaded with unvaccinated COVID-19 cases. You grossly underestimate the harm the unvaccinated are causing the vaccinated, especially when that harm is real and present, and the possible harm from the vaccine minimal and mostly speculative.
4. Continued proliferation of COVID infections increases the likelihood of a variant.
Your argument against "Covid cases put an undue strain on our healthcare system and economy" is flawed. There are people dying in Canada because their "elective" surgeries have had to be postponed because wards are crammed with the unvaccinated. At least one person has died in the ER waiting for trreatment, again because of the hospital was overloaded with unvaccinated COVID-19 cases. You grossly underestimate the harm the unvaccinated are causing the vaccinated, especially when that harm is real and present, and the possible harm from the vaccine minimal and mostly speculative.