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No, no one should be forced to undergo any medical procedure if they are mentally competent. In the US at least, performing any medical procedure against the wishes of a mentally competent patient can be considered assault and punished criminally, even if said treatment is in the best interest of the patient, and even if refusing it will cause death. A person always has final say in what happens to their body.
That being said, an employer can mandate vaccination as a condition of employment in the US. If you don't get it, they can legally fire you.
A government can also mandate vaccination if they deem it's in the best interest of the public. I believe that NYC did so many years ago during a cholera outbreak (not exactly sure of the details there.). But in doing so, they risk the population pushing back, either by loosing re-elections, or outright riots.
I regularly get vaccines for flu, and tetanus, etc. The COVID vaccines concern me for 2 reasons, and maybe they will turn out to be nothing. First, this is an mRNA vaccine, which is completely new technology being used on humans. (mRNA has been used in various animal vaccines I think.) No one has been able to tell me how long the mRNA remains active within a cell, which cells pick up the mRNA, and whether or not your immune system eventually kills these cells that are producing the antigen protein. If a few muscle / fat cells pick this up, make some antigens, and then stop / die, that sounds great. If the mRNA migrates to cardiac / liver cells and keeps making antigen for years, probably not so great.
Second, for corona type viruses (like COVID), many trial vaccines to date have had a very nasty side effect of making subsequent infections worse, not better, called “antibody-dependent enhancement”. So far this has not been seen, but in the FDA documentation for emergency approval, they state that not enough data exists to determine if this will be a long term issue or not.
That being said, an employer can mandate vaccination as a condition of employment in the US. If you don't get it, they can legally fire you.
A government can also mandate vaccination if they deem it's in the best interest of the public. I believe that NYC did so many years ago during a cholera outbreak (not exactly sure of the details there.). But in doing so, they risk the population pushing back, either by loosing re-elections, or outright riots.
I regularly get vaccines for flu, and tetanus, etc. The COVID vaccines concern me for 2 reasons, and maybe they will turn out to be nothing. First, this is an mRNA vaccine, which is completely new technology being used on humans. (mRNA has been used in various animal vaccines I think.) No one has been able to tell me how long the mRNA remains active within a cell, which cells pick up the mRNA, and whether or not your immune system eventually kills these cells that are producing the antigen protein. If a few muscle / fat cells pick this up, make some antigens, and then stop / die, that sounds great. If the mRNA migrates to cardiac / liver cells and keeps making antigen for years, probably not so great.
Second, for corona type viruses (like COVID), many trial vaccines to date have had a very nasty side effect of making subsequent infections worse, not better, called “antibody-dependent enhancement”. So far this has not been seen, but in the FDA documentation for emergency approval, they state that not enough data exists to determine if this will be a long term issue or not.