Since "Nuremberg" is trending I recommend this @FullFact article which dispels some of the very common (in my timeline, anyway) "the Covid-19 vaccines are experimental" memes fullfact.org/health/nurembe… 
"... when we talk about Pfizer or AstraZeneca [vaccines], we’re out of the auspices of the Nuremberg Code because this is a product that has been trialled, with appropriate ethics in place, and has been approved and is now in production and being used globally."
This. I have seen it over and over again, and increasingly - the constant comparisons, implicit and explicit, between Covid-19 prevention measures and Nazi Germany. See also Lord Sumption's comment "no moral obligation for Germans to comply with the Nazi race laws"
There is a legitimate question over whether making vaccinations mandatory to work in care homes, save where medical exemptions applies, is in effect a "compulsory" vaccination. But this isn't fascism or Nazi Germany - it's difficult policies to protect vulnerable people which...
... involve trade offs in personal autonomy, such as the 'freedom' to refuse to have a vaccination where you have no medical reason not to do so.
What these memes do is radicalise people against vaccinations and other reasonable health measures which protect us not only against Covid but new draconian government measures which will be needed if we can't suppress it through e.g. vaccination. It's completely self-defeating
Although it makes for good social media and talk radio I suppose so we have that.
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