Are the corona virus idiots doing us a favour?

How upsetting Gossamer. Hope they will be ok. Was it long after her vaccination that your daughter caught it?

The 'flu vaccine ( H3N2 )should be made compulsory for every citizen before each winter. Children can have it nasally.
In the last week of November 2019, 11,000 people died from 'flu ! Doesn't that alone tell everyone something ?
These figures have been going up each year ! It would avoid future pandemics.

Sorry Ellen it wouldn't. Each year the flu type is different and a universal flu vaccine has yet to be developed

the flu vaccine will not stop Corona virus pandemics or any pandemic that isn't flu.

No vaccine should be compulsory. There should always be the option to make an informed choice. Most people will choose to be vaccinated, but forced vaccination is a worrying concept.

There should always be the option to make an informed choice. Informed about what? False rumours, unproven science? A ludicrous belief that life and all medications must be 100% free of side effects and remote dangers

When did you last cross a busy road?

M0nica- I’m not saying I wouldn’t have it, but the thought of forced vaccinations makes me very uncomfortable.

I remember the Asian flu of 1957/8. It caused tremendous disruption in the area I was living at the time. Some of my school friends and their family members were very ill. My school was closed. ICUs barely existed so death was more likely then. A vaccine was developed very quickly and helped reduce the death rate. The final death rate in the UK was 33,000 and 4,000,000 worldwide.The 1968 HK flu caused 80,000 deaths in the U.K.

In a democracy, compulsory vaccination is not acceptable. All the government can do is encourage uptake of the vaccine. Like EllenVallen, I am tempted to think it should be compulsory but, until we become like China, it is not going to happen and nor should it.

I am always very wary of saying 'never'. There may be circumstances where compulsory vaccination is necessary. A very infectious disease with a huge mortality rate, say 50% plus, but in all normal circumstances, no medical treatment should ever be compulsory.