@bluejay While generally I agree with you the military does not, and should not, have their free will. They forfeit that when they sign up. Its why they can put you in jail just for quiting the military (AWOL) without their permission.

You can have a fighting force entering a foreign country and being able to be wiped out simply from its native diseases. This is doubly true when you consider the close-nit nature of the military, disease would spread like wildfire.

@freemo @bluejay informed consent does not have exemptions but for being medically incapacitated.

@icedquinn

They already gave consent when they signed up to the military.

@bluejay

@freemo @bluejay that's literally not how informed consent works.

@icedquinn it literallys is. That is why we can do druug tests without informing the patient whats in the drug. They agree to take the drug without knowing ahead of time what it is.

@bluejay

@freemo @bluejay no, it's not.

you have to be told you are going in to a clinical trial, and what the potential dangers of this might be (incl. being part of the placebo group.)

this is not some shrinkwrap shit i can hide on page 500 of the EULA and then jab you with cyanide and go "BUT FREEMO CLICKED I AGREE "

@freemo @bluejay i can guarantee you the recruiter does not fulfill the obligations of informed consent and tell everyone they're trying to get to sign

by the way, you're a government slave now we reserve the right to test any random shit we come up with in our garage and by signing this form you consent irrevocably to be tested on.

oh yeah, Nuremberg actually says someone can refuse to continue experimenting *at any time*

So not only is it ethically bankrupt its a war crime.

@icedquinn@blob.cat @freemo@qoto.org @bluejay@qoto.org i mean it has been fully FDA approved which is why they are mandating it now (at least Pfizer version has)

@icedquinn@blob.cat @freemo@qoto.org @bluejay@qoto.org nobody's mandating vaccines for the entirety of the public. it's only schoolchildren who go to actual public schools in some states and perhaps businesses and other public officies, which is quite frankly 100% reasonable as long as they allow medical exemptions from doctors (allergies, high risk, etc etc)

@kayden

I am not against the vaccine, but no that is completely unacceptable for countless reasons.

You would think we learned our lesson when private businesses started doing this with HIV way back in the day. Those with HIV were barred from jobs, and those deemed to be a high risk for catching HIV (gays mostly) were barred under the same reasoning.

The pattern we are seeing here is frighteningly similar.

It also means that indirectly you are effectively required to expose private medical information. Say you have cancer, or HIV and that is your reason for not getting the vaccine. Now you are in a position where you have to prove to your employer that you have a medical exemption and expose to your employer that you have a private disability and effectively loose your right to keeping your disability private... we long since learned our lessons as to why that is unacceptable and here we are, doing it again.

@icedquinn @bluejay

@freemo@qoto.org @icedquinn@blob.cat @bluejay@qoto.org tbh I agree
my problem is people making their decision off of dumb baseless facts instead of informed deicions which is probably a fault of our abysmal education system

@kayden

Yes, that is my problem to. But as frustrating as it is that doesnt give us the right to try to strong arm them. The solution is education, not force.

I would argue that force is far less effective as well. There was a lot of resistance to vaccines at various times in history that was overcome effectively with education. But when you use force you loose trust and ultimately increase the resistance to it rather than fixing the problem.

You will never win an argument or convince someone of the truth by punching them in the face repeatedly until they agree.

@icedquinn @bluejay

@freemo @kayden @bluejay

> You will never win an argument or convince someone of the truth by punching them in the face repeatedly until they agree.

its working very well for fascists so far

@icedquinn

I'm not really sure it is. Every conservative and their mother has so little trust right now half of them dont even think COVID exists and are so deep int he conspiracy theory BS its getting absurd. This is a relatively new thing and it is the direct result of how the liberals are trying to strong-arm people who disagree with them, it has caused this resistance in the first place.

I can guarantee you if the liberals actually tried to play nice there would be far less resistance to a vaccine.

@kayden @bluejay