[Noah930]

I got the flu shot yesterday. Granted I'm in healthcare where I can be around the sick and frail, but I feel that it's gotten to the point where I feel I'm being bullied into getting it. I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other (on the flu vaccination), personally. If a workplace is going to offer it right then and there, I'm fine with getting it. I understand the statistical health benefits of vaccination.

But now the larger corporate healthcare places are virtually mandating it. From my Libertarian perspective, I'm not sure I'm OK with that. For years the hospital has been pushing flu vaccination. In the past, if you didn't get the shot you had to wear a mask in the hospital and some sort of sticker on your ID badge. (Heck, might as well make it a yellow 6-pointed star while you're at it.) Now, the hospital (and a corporate clinic where I go--where people aren't sick) also make you watch a video and have a one-on-one chat with some middle-level manager about the fallacies of non-vaxxing. OK, that's too far IMO. That's bordering on coercion, and forcing decisions to be made under duress. I'm sure a lawyer would argue the exact opposite, but I still feel that health care organizations are twisting peoples' arms to get them to comply. I'm not comfortable with that approach.