Various countries take different approaches to increasing Covid-19 vaccination.

I agree with this position:

*There is a strong case for making any vaccination mandatory (or compulsory) if four conditions are met: there is a grave threat to public health; the vaccine is safe and effective; mandatory vaccination has a superior cost/benefit profile compared with other alternatives [and] the level of coercion is proportionate.*

I see two moral issues about the details of the system:

• The system must not punish those who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated. They should be treated legally as if they were vaccinated, then encouraged and helped to stay away from diseases-spreding situations
• Systems to check vaccination certificates should not build a database listing everyone's movements. If the system is used for contact tracing, it should be designed so that no central organization finds out who went where except when a place and time becomes listed as a possible transmission site.

* We [Britons] feel besieged and imperiled, and the Johnson government is seizing the chance to weaken our most fundamental liberties.*

US citizens: call on Congress to write the budget reconciliation bill to follow the INVEST Act — raising taxes on the rich and investing public transit.

The US could spend that money on public transit without any increase in taxes; it can handle a larger deficit. But taxing the rich more is a good thing to do, just as investing more in public transit is a good thing to do.

Restorative justice can be more effective than punishment, for avoiding future harm and future crime.

Biden has done nothing to make non-medical workplaces protect workers from Covid-19.