You can refuse the vaccine, no problem. Here’s the rules!
You will be vaccinated against COVID-19 or you won’t be allowed to leave your home.
You won’t be allowed to go to work.
You will be denied medical care.
You will not be allowed to have any contact with family and friends.
You won’t be able to go to school.
Stripped of its contextual baggage, the phrase “My Body, My Choice” makes a compelling rallying cry because it conveys a fundamental truth that we all innately understand: I have the claim to my own body and what is done to it.
So why, then, are we being asked to believe that when it comes to vaccinations during a declared pandemic it is “Your Body, Their Choice”?
A 1905 Supreme Court decision established the constitutionality of compulsory state vaccination laws to protect the public health. Meaning you have no right to refuse this vaccination.
Although all 50 states and the District of Columbia now require diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, rubella, and varicella vaccinations before attending public school, all also offer a variety of vaccine exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons.
Only 11 states can override these exemptions in an outbreak. Court decisions, including from the Supreme Court, have upheld both state-imposed fines for refusing to be vaccinated and the exclusion of unvaccinated children from schools.
Of course, even with Covid-19 treatments — which have not yet been rigorously studied — many health experts agree that life is never going to be normal without a vaccine, including former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb and White House infectious disease adviser Anthony Fauci.
Practicing Preventive Heath gives us peace of mind that we are taking control of our Health, so we can improve our odds of having a better Quality of Life, where we don’t need anyone to care for us. The kind of life where our sons, daughters and friends say “I hope I look that good when I reach your age…