Thread by @HegKong

"If vaccination is a condition for employment, just how voluntary is it? The tactic of restricting personal freedom to coerce people into getting vaccinated is no different from a vaccine mandate that has no exceptions. It's blackmail, pure and simple." Dr. Mercola

The bedrock of medical ethics is the principle of informed & voluntary consent with regard to medical treatments.

The World Medical Association (WMA) International Code of Medical Ethics states: A physician shall respect a competent patient’s right to accept or refuse treatment

Vaccination carries risks. There is the risk of injury leading to disability, inability to work, loss of livelihood, loss of quality of life, and even death, for which no one can be held legally liable.

Such a decision must always be voluntary and without threat of sanctions.

Considering the Covid vaccine is a new vaccine technology approved for emergency use only that has only been tested for a few months and with unknown long-term effects, it is highly unethical to coerce this.

Furthermore, at present there is still no evidence the vaccines prevent transmission, so using the justification for vaccination that you are putting the lives of customers/colleagues at risk by not being vaccinated is not valid.

Invasion of privacy:

Your employer has no right to know about your private medical records, just like they have no right to know if you are HIV positive (generally speaking).

Threatening employees with loss of employment for not vaccinating is highly discriminatory and the equivalent of discriminating against HIV sufferers and accusing them of them being a risk to others.

The administration of any drug, for which death of serious injury is listed as possible side-effects, must always be voluntary and NEVER mandated or coerced.