A vaccine seems like the happy ending to the horrible story of 2020, but happy endings are not written in the language of coercive control, emotional manipulation and threats.
This is an example: telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/…

Another example is health ministers threatening mandation which would need changes to the law.
This will not go well. At best it is counter-productive and will be socially divisive. At worst people will lose more trust in government & science.

Happy endings do not include the loss of bodily autonomy and free will or the splitting of society.
Safety trials are not complete. Let's be hopeful, but cautious about time scales. Uptake will reflect need (this is is not a dangerous virus to most of us, so not everyone wants to be front of the queue), safety and trust.
Covert vaccine propaganda on social media also does not inspire trust.

Human beings are alert to language. This is clumsy, insulting and rouses suspicion. People can detect the inauthenticity of covert operations and 'bots'.
The best happy ending would be full and honest discussions about risk, choice, autonomy, transparency. Trust follows.

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