The ethical and legal complexities of coercive measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19
3 years, 4 months ago

The ethical and legal complexities of coercive measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19

ABC  

Many thoughtful Australians, from all occupations, generations, and social circumstances, and a wide spectrum of political beliefs, are asking questions that raise serious ethical issues in relation to how we are and should be dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. It has two legitimate powers relevant to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic: the “parens patriae” power and the “police power”. “Police” power The state’s other power relevant to protecting public health is the “police” power. In implementing that order through using its police power, the state fulfils its “parens patriae” duties to protect vulnerable people unable to protect themselves. Conflicts of values and of rights The problem for “progressive values” adherents in the state’s use of its police power is that their overriding governing principle of respect for individuals’ rights to control and choose what happens to them — that is, the dominance of “expressive or radical individualism” and rights to individual autonomy — is challenged.

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Op-Ed: Anti-vaccine patients vent anger on healthcare workers like me. It takes a toll on care
2 years, 11 months ago

Op-Ed: Anti-vaccine patients vent anger on healthcare workers like me. It takes a toll on care

LA Times  

As hospital workers risk their lives to fight the pandemic, some COVID-skeptic patients and families vehemently claim that healthcare workers are “poisoning” and “punishing” people. A 43-year-old woman insisted “it’s just the flu” right up until she was begging to be intubated when oxygen masks failed to alleviate the panic caused by low oxygen levels. Patients and their relatives vehemently …

Pope suggests that getting a COVID-19 vaccination is a ‘moral obligation’
2 years, 11 months ago

Pope suggests that getting a COVID-19 vaccination is a ‘moral obligation’

LA Times  

Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 was a “moral obligation” and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” into refusing one of the most effective ways of saving lives during the pandemic. Francis, 85, has generally shied away from speaking about vaccination as a “moral obligation,” though his COVID-19 advisors have referred to it as …

Mandating Vaccines: Actually The Way Forward?
3 years, 1 month ago

Mandating Vaccines: Actually The Way Forward?

Live Law  

Recently, the Meghalaya High Court held the Meghalaya Government's order of mandating vaccinations for vendors, taxi drivers and other business as unconstitutional. The aforesaid mandatory orders have sparked the question of what must gain precedence – the government's duty to protect the health of its citizens by getting everyone vaccinated or an individual's right to privacy, liberty and bodily autonomy …

Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory?
3 years, 2 months ago

Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory?

Al Jazeera  

Experts say vaccines mandates for COVID-19 infringe on individual freedoms, but may be necessary to protect public health. In Fiji, which in July had one of the world’s highest rates of coronavirus infections per capita, workers petitioned the nation’s top court to throw out its vaccine mandate, while in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order last week banning …

Effective and ethical political leadership cannot avoid mandatory vaccination
3 years, 4 months ago

Effective and ethical political leadership cannot avoid mandatory vaccination

ABC  

There is an ethical and political failure of leadership on Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination policy. Moreover, the sensitivity on the part of some political leaders to the worries and concerns of people who are hesitant or opposed to COVID-19 vaccinations would be more understandable if similar sensitivity was shown in response to the worries and concerns of, for instance, the unemployed, …

Analysis: Politics is causing needless deaths in the fight against Covid-19
3 years, 5 months ago

Analysis: Politics is causing needless deaths in the fight against Covid-19

CNN  

CNN — In what is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated, almost every adult American can make a choice not to die a needless death from Covid-19. “That’s part of how we protect patients from infection and patients coming into hospitals are often vulnerable,” Murthy told CNN’s “New Day.” “I think that’s a very reasonable thing for hospitals to do.” …

Many L.A. cops and firefighters aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Is this a public safety threat?
3 years, 6 months ago

Many L.A. cops and firefighters aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Is this a public safety threat?

LA Times  

When COVID-19 vaccines became available in California, police officers, firefighters and other first responders got priority access, and potentially more. “We have to remember: We get vaccinated for others, too.” The reasons for safety workers’ reluctance mirror those of the broader unvaccinated population, experts and police leaders say. Gavin Newsom said the state was “not anticipating any mandates” that first …

3 reasons for making Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for children
3 years, 7 months ago

3 reasons for making Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for children

India Today  

On May 5, Health Canada approved a Covid-19 vaccine for use in children aged 12-15 years. Covid-19 presents a substantial risk of harm — including long-term health complications such as organ damage, long Covid, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome and death — to at least some proportion of children. If the Covid-19 vaccine is as safe and effective as other standard …

Salvaging strategy: On scaling up COVID-19 vaccinations
3 years, 8 months ago

Salvaging strategy: On scaling up COVID-19 vaccinations

The Hindu  

India’s aggressive second wave of coronavirus infections marked by over 1,50,000 cases a day and many deaths is clearly the result of irrational exuberance early in the new year. After prematurely assuming that COVID-19 was virtually over, governments made rash decisions to allow large religious gatherings and political campaigns with little regard for disease control. Allowing all proven vaccines to …

Could the Government make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in Australia?
4 years, 3 months ago

Could the Government make a COVID-19 vaccine mandatory in Australia?

ABC  

When Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Melbourne radio station 3AW a COVID-19 vaccine would be "as mandatory as you can possibly make it" there was an immediate backlash from some groups. Previously, Fact Check determined that in Western Australia, the Public Health Act 2016 set out powers that allowed an authorised health official to direct someone to be vaccinated under …

Doctors need our protection, not our lawsuits after coronavirus ends
4 years, 7 months ago

Doctors need our protection, not our lawsuits after coronavirus ends

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Doctors are making tough treatment and …

COVID-19 lockdown | The right way to generate good energy in the time of a crisis
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 lockdown | The right way to generate good energy in the time of a crisis

The Hindu  

“Man is at bottom a dreadful wild animal,” wrote German philosopher of pessimism Arthur Schopenhauer in the 1800s. We have seen a rash of examples of prejudice, narrow-mindedness and selfishness these last few days, which proves one thing — we might imagine that India is the fount of spirituality and yogic virtues but in real life many of us behave …

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