This is a moronic comparison and I can’t believe we’re still doing this. In a true emergency, of course it doesn’t matter - if my plane is crashing and the only pilot on board is drunk, then I don’t mind if he tries to save me. But pilots should still have to be sober to fly (even if, yes, sober pilots can crash planes too).
I expect health professionals to pose as little risk to their patients as possible, which is why I want them to be vaccinated against every conceivable illness that could threaten me. It’s worrying to me that a decent chunk of them don’t share the level of professionalism that I would expect.
It is at least comforting that the vaccine mandate did part of its job, which is to persuade many people to get the jab anyway. Because as we’ve seen, while there are undoubtedly many staunch anti-vaxxers who will never get it, there are even more vaccine skeptics who are too cowardly to crow about its supposed dangers without first getting the vaccine themselves and enjoying its protections. Vaccine mandates like the ones for health care workers and for travel quickly show how flimsy these vaccine skeptic arguments are - you only have to look at how quickly people abandon them.
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