Why choice is crucial

Writing in The MJ, Claire worries that making COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for those working in a Care Quality Commission-registered care home in England is illiberal

When the Government recently announced that it is to make COVID vaccination a condition of employment for anyone working in a Care Quality Commission-registered care home in England, I was shocked.

I was even more shocked that my opposition, as a civil libertarian, was ridiculed for fuelling anti-vax sentiment. Nothing could be further from the truth.

It is galling because I am very much in favour of COVID vaccines and I have no time for the anti-Big Pharma tropes or the rejection of pharmacological interventions. Yet I’m told to shush in case opposing this seismic legal shift might discourage people from taking the jab. The opposite is more likely…

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