A top virologist has warned that “the worst thing you can do is make the vaccine compulsory” because it would be “fuel to the anti-vaccine movement.” Earlier today it was revealed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has now proved 95% effective in preventing coronavirus and will be submitted for emergency authorization within days, meaning it could be ready as soon as next month.
Governments across the world are considering how to encourage uptake of the vaccine and how to deal with the millions of people who will refuse to take it.
According to virologist Marc Van Ranst, it would be a terrible idea for authorities to make the vaccine mandatory.
“The worst thing you can do is make the vaccine compulsory,” Van Ranst told VRT News.
“That’s fuel to the anti-vaccine movement, as it’s what they’ve been warning about for years. It would send a very bad signal,” he added.
The virologist points out that if a majority of the population receives the vaccine, the roughly 17 percent who refuse to take it “is not a problem.”
As we highlighted yesterday, with a British MP calling for the vaccine to be compulsory before anyone is allowed to return to work, a poll out of the UK found that a majority of the population supported making it mandatory.
However, even if the vaccine isn’t made compulsory, private venues such as bars, restaurants, stadiums and other businesses could refuse entry to anyone who can’t present a digital certificate of vaccination.
Both Ticketmaster and the the airline industry in general are considering such a system, which would make socializing, travel and commerce virtually impossible even if governments don’t mandate the vaccine by law.
Poster Comment:
If 17% of us refuse the vaccine, then the 83%, too stupid to figure out this is a scam designed not just to let The Powers That Ought Not To Be steal everything from us and then kill us, can die and leave us alone with Bill Gates and Dr Fauci and Fake News and Nancy Pelosi.