We already saw what heavy-handed vaccine mandates did during COVID-19. Doing it again will only deepen the distrust

Measles cases are rising in Manitoba. Public health officials are promoting vaccines as the best way to protect vulnerable people from this illness.

Right on cue, the CBC published an article asking whether the provincial government should make measles vaccines mandatory for students to attend school. However, going down this road would be a big mistake.

We saw during the COVID-19 pandemic what happens when governments go too far with vaccine mandates. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s inflammatory remarks about unvaccinated people and his government’s unnecessary requirement for truckers to get the COVID-19 vaccine were prime examples.

One of the fastest ways to destroy confidence in public health officials is to run roughshod over the rights of those who have a different opinion. We should not be the least bit surprised that vaccine skepticism is higher now than before the pandemic. Instead of increasing confidence in vaccines, overbearing government mandates destroyed it.

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