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Mandatory Vaccinations by a Philosopher?

6/1/2021

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Upon seeing an article in a journal on Medical Ethics@BMJ, I felt compelled to write to the editor Dear Editor, 
having scanned the article  by Julian S, philosopher in Oxford no less, in your journal's edition from Nov 2020 as I became aware of it just now, I feel I need to comment: The mandate to prevent harm from others requires a reasonable amount of knowledge what the risk to self is. To use a narrative extract from an autoethnographic case study as example:
"... what those people who experienced serious reaction to the covid vaccine are believed to have reacted to is an emulsifier called PEG -polyethylenglycol which sounds harmless enough. I was tested for allergies comprehensively by a very thorough specialist in Ger in 1996 and that because of a series of very light reactions to at that point unknown substances (potentially skin creams). I dare to assert that in the UK where I have lived for 20 years and worked in multidisciplinary health settings the first thing people would know about such an allergy would be if they suffered an anaphylactic shock. Prior to that most people would only/at best have been prescribed cortisone. I believe here enters what M. Fricker, UK philosopher in NY, calls epistemic injustice inherent in a system of health inequalities as prevalent in the UK and an approach to behaviourism in clinical practice I politely call blinkered. ":
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