Austria is the first Western country to make Covid vaccines mandatory. Your thoughts ?

Austria has become the first Western country to make Covid vaccines mandatory amid brutal wave of virus
From February 1 everyone will be need to be jabbed or else face unspecified 'penalties'.
One of Austria's main opposition parties has warned the country 'is now a dictatorship' after the government vowed to make Covid vaccines mandatory for everyone from February next year.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10220735/Europes-Covid-crisis-Austria-makes-vaccines-mandatory-EVERYONE.html

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Elessar · 26-30, M

They have areas with vaccine coverage as low as 40% I've read. Sounds like the only viable option. The alternative is continuous lockdowns.

Nimbus · M

@Elessar Thus a 'dictatorship' is OK as long as people are saved?

Elessar · 26-30, M

@Nimbus Except I see no dictatorship here. Having a ~20% (in Austria apparently more) of the population hold hostage everyone else by triggering unnecessary restrictions and disrupting service to me sounds worse and liberticidal than not granting freedom of choice for a matter that shouldn't be a choice in the first place.

Eighty years ago people were sent to the front to fight (and potentially die) for their nation, they couldn't choose, and nobody speaks of the 40s U.K. or U.S. as "dictatorships" because of that. Now we're merely asked to spend 15 minutes to go take a shot that in the great majority of cases will potentially extend one's lifetime and not the other way around.

It's just that the concept of "greater good" has gone down the sink over the years.

Nimbus · M

@Elessar An interesting thought 👍