The key question for 7 billion people around the world is as follows [see photo].
Will individuals choose to take a Coronavirus vaccine in 2020?
For most this question is a no-brainer. Indeed the global community is waiting, impatiently, for this Coronavirus vaccine to arrive and to end the current pandemic. It seems everyone is wishing, and hoping, for a vaccine to reduce the life crippling impact of the Coronavirus on their lives. Everyone is demanding that global healthcare providers invent, and distribute, a vaccine as soon as possible.
Thus the answer to the question posed above is a resounding "Yes".
However.....
My answer is"No".
For me the risks are high for death from Coronavirus. And so I will seek to be a "free rider" on the impact of the vaccine on the virus as the public becomes immune. I assume that this will provide a vaccine-led "herd immunity" through the injection of a modified version of that infection. The net effect of global vaccinations will be that the Coronavirus is deprived of the hosts it needs to thrive, propagate, and survive. So the virus will die rather than killing its hosts.
I am sure that I am not the only person in the world who will not volunteer to have a Coronavirus vaccine infused into my system. I believe the risks to me are too high to make that decision if it is a matter of "freewill". And thus I am sure that taking the vaccine will be made compulsory in all jurisdictions around the globe. So I will have to decide whether I will break the law to protect my personal health.
The following question therefore becomes a key question of our times.
Should the "group think" of the mob [enforced by governments] be allowed to override the "independent thoughts" of the individual?
Today, 24th August 2020, the key question for you, and me, is not about the provision of a Coronavirus vaccine, climate change, government debt, party politics, robotics, etc. it is about the role of individuals in our communities.
Thus the key question goes something like this:
Should individuals retain the power to oppose, not go along with, the "group think" or "one-size-fits-all" solutions pushed by the people who control the levers of government?
Richard
Newminimalists tend to be independent thinkers: see my website minimal-you.com
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