Alan Dershowitz: The State Can Mandate Its People to Get Coronavirus Vaccine

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DERSHOWITZ: “If the Supreme Court said yes and if it came to the Supreme Court today they would say yes. It would either be 9-0 or 8-1. It is not as debatable constitutionally. I have a right to draft you and put your life in danger to help the country. The police power of the state is very considerable. But let’s distinguish between the constitutional issue on the one hand, which is settled, and the moral issue on the other hand. I think one can make the plausible argument that nobody should be required to be subject to a dangerous vaccination to help other people. That is a plausible argument. And I think we should continue to debate that. I don’t agree should require people to be given a vaccine unless it is proven very, very safe. Whether it’s injected at the site into could still cause problems but in general, if the vaccine is extremely safe, then the state does have the right — vaccines work on a theory of mass inoculation. You’re not taking it to help yourself. If it were vaccine developed for cancer or heart condition, obviously you and I would have a right to say no, we have the right to die. I believe you have the right to die, but I don’t believe you have the right to be typhoid Mary and spread it. You have an option. You can stay in quarantine. But what you don’t have the right to do is circulate in society without being vaccinated if the vaccine is proven to be very safe. And that could be a matter —”