Medical Freedom & COVID-19 Vaccines: Informed Decisions and Mandates

The COVID-19 illness upended everyone’s way of life in 2020. In under a year, vaccines were developed to combat the virus.[1] Now, some schools, colleges, businesses, hospitals, and even state and local governments have mandated that their employees, students, and patrons be inoculated. Should government or businesses mandate that we put something in our own bodies or in our children’s bodies, replacing parents’ responsibility to make the best decision for their dependent children?