Hmmm. Coercion wins, individual liberty loses. Why on earth should libertarians cheer?
Letâs go back a step.
Libertarians celebrate individual freedom. Theyâve long been associated with opposition to vaccine mandates, which restrict personal liberty and interfere with bodily integrity. But that doesnât make them anti-vaxxers. One can consider a thing desirable without believing people should be forced to do it. (Think prayer.) A 2019 Australian study found no correlation between scoring high on an index of libertarian thought and refusing to vaccinate oneâs own children. On the contrary: Left to choose for themselves, libertarians were as likely as anyone else to want their own children vaccinated.
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When much of the world is still desperate for COVID-19 vaccinations, a handful of wealthy places are beginning to have the opposite problem. Hong Kong is one. Despite a free and easily accessible programme open to all adults since April, only just over 10% of the