Coronavirus

The important, unexplored reasons why it’s good to allow those who wish it, to decline vaccination.

Covid vaccines are an extraordinary technology for people who want to avoid the disease. Nothing in this article seeks to detract from that.

The vaccines are also being proposed as necessary for everybody. This proposition is built from three ideas which are all subtly but critically flawed:

• the idea that refusing the vaccine endangers others’ safety
• the way that vaccine safety is being measured
• the widespread loss of confidence in natural human immunity, ushered in with covid.

We’ve heard this proposal from the left…