Thread by @MarkDavidsonAfr

Can the government constitutionally require that everyone be vaccinated against Covid-19?

"The simple answer is it can.

That it hasn’t is because it decided as a matter of policy not to do so."

"The WHO’s Expanded Programme of Immunisation targets six vaccine preventable..

...diseases: polio, diphtheria, TB, whooping cough, measles and tetanus. In 1974 only about 5% of the world’s children were protected from these diseases; today, 83% are. South Africa participates in this programme and over the past 20 years, immunisation has saved millions"

"It has been reported that nearly all Covid deaths in the US are now among the unvaccinated. The California Department of Health and Environmental Control in a recent analysis has shown that 90% of Covid-19 cases and deaths in June 2021 and 86% of hospitalisations were among..

..people who were not fully vaccinated. The CDC has shown that since 26 July 2021, there have been 6,587 reports of break-through infections that resulted in hospitalisation or deaths among 163 million fully vaccinated people, a percentage of 0,01% or less"

" of lives. It is estimated that the programme averts approximately 2,5 million lives a year. Most South Africans have been vaccinated under this programme."

"Any limitation of a right, even if there is strong comparative law support for the limitation and a compelling purpose..

"..that weighs heavily on its side of the scale, must be proportional taking into account the extent of the infringement, the relation between the purpose of the limitation and the infringement and whether less restrictive means could have been employed to effect that purpose."

"Well, the extent of the limitation is a prick on the arm for free".

Read the full article here:

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0…