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Vaccines Are Not About Individual Choice
Vaccines are public health measures meant to protect communities from diseases. Therefore, the conversation should center around how vaccines protect communities, not individual's opinions on it.
As vaccine mandates become widely adopted by industries and governments, people are believing that their individual rights and freedoms are being violated. They are beginning to adopt the term “my body, my choice” when having these conversations even though the term is most widely known for being related to abortion rights. The thing about vaccines though is that they are not just about individual choice. Vaccines have been created with the intention of protecting communities. Their purpose goes far beyond individual choice. Vaccines are a public health tool used to protect the community as a whole rather than the individual.
Recently, this has come into the spotlight related to some NBA player's refusal to get the vaccine over concerns that their rights were being violated. Much of the focus was centered on Andrew Wiggins and Kyrie Irving, who have made similar arguments as others that people who get the Covid vaccine are still getting the disease. Even Nicki Minaj made headlines when she announced she had yet to get the vaccine…
