I'm not against people getting the vaccine - if they want it - but forcing people to take some biological agent cooked up by scientists to prevent a disease which may well have been cooked up by scientists - that's another frightening high-tide mark in the state's intrusion into our private lives.

Agreed. And one particularly troubling aspect of all this is that it appears forces are at work to assure that we'll all be getting this vaccine regularly. Already big Pharma is working on boosters for various strains. This is like the war on terror; it's never ending.

So if you accept the notion that COVID will be with us forevermore, like the common cold or flu, then the implication is that big Pharma will push for regular, universal vaccines, forever. This is something that right now does not exist nor is there a need for. So it's a huge change, if it were to happen.

But there's another aspect. Again assuming that COVID is with us to stay, wouldn't it be better for our species to deal with it naturally? Is there really any justification for a permanent, universal, yearly vaccine? It's just one more thing our species will be dependent on, like fossil fuels and Facebook.

Big Pharma has hit pay dirt here.