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This is a human rights and informed consent issue. Informed consent is a right of all New Zealanders and informed consent is not hounding a person until they choose the option you want nor is it punishing them for not choosing your option!! Informed consent is giving a person all the information available then allowing them to choose uncoersed the option that best suits them. If your vaccination works then why do I need to have it if I choose not to??

No, everyone should have the right to choose whats put into their body. People should be educated about vaccinations and the manufacturing of them, then make an educated decision.

Vaccinations have not helped the prevention of the spread of covid and it should be a personal choice to inject any chemical into your body!!!

Vaccinations result in lower costs to the healthcare system and work in a preventative not responsive manner. People who can't be vaccinated due to compromised immunity rely on those who can.

It is a human right to be allowed to decide on your own medical treatment, enforced vaccination is directly against human rights.

The government should not decide what people put in their bodies or enforce unlawful mandates on people who have a different opinion. They work for all the people. Especially when corruption and their agenda is not transparent.

No, you cannot FORCE people to be medically vaccinated if they don't want to be. Everyone has the right to make that decision for themselves.

I think its dependant on the severity of the disease itself, if its rapidly devastating a large percentage of the population, but I truly believe everyone should have the right to choose what they do with their body; and while vaccines can be life saving, its truly understandable why someone would be uncomfortable injecting something into their body, that was formulated and developed by a free profit first company, especially foreign companies who siphon large amounts of money out of the government.

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their wilL.

My body is my choice as to what I put in to it. I have consent over my body and health care choices only

Its the same as banning abortions. People should have a right to choose everything involved with their body. Not have the government cherry pick your freedom. That is not freedom. Legally, one can not sue vaccine companies for injuries, and most of them are lifelong so you are dooming people to suffer for the rest of their life with no compensation. And in return you are perhaps reducing the chances of contracting a non deadly disease and perhaps spreading it to others. It's barbaric.

Basic human rights to choose what goes into our bodies no mass medication should be allowed as it removes freedom of choice & denys alternative health measures to the same issue

I think everyone should have the right and choice as to what is put in to our bodies, especially when it does not harm anyone else.

We are human beings, nobody should have any right to enforce drugs onto anybody without consent. And to mandate such a ruling and to strip people of their livelihoods unless they comply is inhumane an despicable.

the govt has no right to tell people what they can or cannot do with their bodies, nor should they have any "punishments" for not getting it.

We should have the right to control what goes into our bodies. It is abuse from the government and controlling

My body, my choice. Violation of basic human rights. If i presented you with an unknown elixr in a syringe, you would not agree to it. In cases where information is provided, it is reasonable to have mandatory vaccines. But, in cases like the covid19 vaccine, the available information and past circumstances appear to be very controversial. I'm not surprised that many people conspire theories about this wonder-drug, that conviniently did not work when i fell ill with covid 2 weeks later.

Vaccinations shouldn't be mandatory. Labour mandated the covid vaccine then lost your job if you didn't comply which is BS

Everyone has the right to choose!
People have different perspectives because everyone has walked a different path in life. Values and beliefs all differ so is

I believe that this is a medical freedom issue and that individuals should gave the right to choose or refuse treatment. Mandating vaccines during the Covid Pamdemic was a massive overstep and in hindsight there is a great deal of evidence that benefits were overstated and risks understated.

The government has no right to force individuals to take a vaccine. They have not been properly tested and there are numerous cases of vaccine injuries being swept under the carpet. It’s all about profit! Leave us alone!! If your vaccines are so efficient, nobody who is vaccinated should be worried that they will catch the disease from the unvaccinated. How moronic! It is disgraceful how the unvaccinated were treated!!!

Freedom of choice, there are always risks involved whether severe or not and some people should have the right to make that choice themselves.

No, I don’t think vaccines should be made mandatory that doesn’t follow basic human rights at all. And I don’t really trust whatever’s in your vaccines.

Medical intervention is a personal choice. Not a governments, especially when the vacinne was mandated using black mail. The vacinne mandated by the global governments have an extremely poor safety record and are not very effective. Any opposing view last time has been quashed and ridiculed which has and is an ongoing disgrace. It has caused a very decisive subject matter and caused irreparable damage to the trust of the medical and pharmaceutical industry.

It is a basic human right to be able to choose what we put in our bodies. The government has no right to enforce or mandate anyone. When the government are being informed by the WHO scientists that are paid for by big Pharma we always need to have the freedom to ask questions. Effectively we are paying Big Pharma billion dollar profits so we must be able to ask questions and have the choice to decide for ourselves. As we are all aware children don't get severe covid symptoms and vaccinations do not prevent transmission. So vaccinations should never be forced. The people need to also be…  Read more made aware of the risk factor when taking vaccines. At the moment our media has been shadow banned from reporting properly on this huge issue. Overseas new statistics are emerging and vaccine injury is very prevelant. There is a big chance you can have adverse reactions that are life long issues. I want to choose what I put into my children's and my body.

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their will.

Why should the government be the dictator of a persons basic human right which is the choice to what they allow into their own body

Everyone should have their own right to choose medical choices for their body. There is no one medicine that ‘fits all’ and the current vaccine has caused devastating side affects

People should have the autonomy to make their own medical decisions without enforcement that results in penalty within society. This is in accordance with the Bill of Rights.

It should be encouraged not mandatory, more time needs to be put into educating people so they can make an informed decision for themselves

No, people should be able to choose what they put in their own body and more information should be shared of natural alternatives.

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their will.

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their will.

You cannot in any way force any person to undergo any medical procedure by duress within any factor of their lives, be it their right to remain employed, their right to travel freely and their right to attend public gatherings.

Personal choice is a must. Everyone’s body is different, you cannot force medicine on people it’s not right

I don’t believe Vaccines should be mandated, I think everyone has the right to make a decision for themselves and should be respected. But in saying that I believe businesses owners or individuals should also be respected if they don’t allow people that are not vaccinated into their premises, respect and rights go both ways

Every human being should have the right to make health decisions for their own bodies, and children should remain under the choices made by their own parents.

No one should be forced to vaccinate under any circumstances. Everyone should have the right to do as they please with their own body!

I am the only person or entity that has full rights over what I have in my body. This is an overstep of power and a breach of human rights.

People have the right to control what happens to their own bodies, and have the right to decide what is best for their own children. It is each individual’s decision to make. A vaccine is not something people should be forced into.

Each person should be given the opportunity to choose whats best for them personally. If they are not given a choice how is it different to rape?

Free people have different religions and own choices to say what is put in their own bodies. Governments should not have total control over their citizens bodies.
Is our own body owned by the government?

We did mandatory vaccinations and there has been absolutely no data on how effective it was. By the time poeple were vaccinated the variant had significantly decreased in it's danger level. People deserve freedom to choose and in no way should we alienate them if they decide not to. We should encourage healthy lifestyle practices first, building our immune systems up naturally. I do believe people over 55 should get vaccinated if they're concerned for their life.

I believe that this is a medical freedom issue and that individuals should gave the right to choose or refuse treatment. Mandating vaccines during the Covid Pandemic was a massive overstep and in hindsight there is a great deal of evidence that benefits were overstated and risks understated.

I will not be dictated to by Big Pharma to inform me of my own health decisions when they stand to make trillion dollar profits from us. There have been no long term studies on the Covid vaccines and they were only rushed through by the emergency stance. There is well documented adverse reactions to vaccines so people need to have freedom of choice.

The government can not take away people’s choice over what they put into their own bodies. Vaccinations are not risk free therefore should not be forced to be taken!

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their will.

Copied and pasted from another post. Bang on

Medical autonomy is important and medical decisions about treatments for individuals should be made by individuals (in consultation with their physician), not by governments, public health practitioners, or other bureaucrats.

Medical decisions are ultimately up to the person making them - government imposing mandates in a medical treatment is a breach of personal freedom

I believe that mandatory vaccinations (for those children who do not have health issues that mean they cannot receive vaccinations) are important to decrease the prevalence of potentially deadly diseases in the population, and protect those most at risk.

If the vaccines actually worked and were without risk I wouldn't have an issue with them. My issue lies with the fact that since the 1960's autism and other neurological disorders in children have gone from under 6% to now over 60% the only major difference is the number of vaccines administered to children, most of the time the effects only starting to show after their vaccines given at the age of 2. Furthermore, I have no solid reason to trust the pharmaceutical companies who have to date been given the largest fines in human history proving the theory that there is no money in…  Read more a cure and plenty of money to be made from a sick society. Lastly, the chance of a child who does catch one of the diseases that they vaccinate for if they are living in a 1st world country their chance of death or lifelong negative consequences is below 3% which is quite low and the chances of catching said diseases are also very very low. Natural immunity is best

Bodily autonomy is a basic human right, informed consent is written into our constitution and legal system, while vaccines are often safe for many they DO have some risk as with every medication and medial treatment available. It is madness that we can accept force feeding people medication against their will is not acceptable, and yet forced vaccination against consent is considered an acceptable idea. There are a variety of factors that need to be considered and this absolutely has to be a discussion between doctor and patient, and ultimately decided by the individual. They are a medication, not some kind of magical unicorn juice.

Despite the popular hyperbole that vaccines are "Safe and Effective", a legal battle was won that showed that no vaccine has ever been properly put through rigorous scientific safety studies. (See Kennedy and Suri ICAN vs HSS) No surprise since the testing is done by people invested in the success of the vaccine. On top of that, vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any adverse events suffered. With no accountability comes no incentive to restrict that incredibly lucrative industry. (See the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act 1986)

Every citizen must have the right to choose what medicine or medical procedure they wish to use. If any medical procedure is to be mandated, it needs to have been tested fir a minimum of 15 years to ensure next generation is not affected, as is a usual scientific requirement, and an alternative pathway that is acceptable to the citizen needs to be available for those who choose not to partake. If testing were completed over 15 years, the at risk individuals would be identified and would be able to choose whether they have a vaccine or isolate while risk is present.

No they should not because nobody is gonna tell me I HAVE to get my kids vaccinted. Especially not if the vaccine comes out as fast as the covid one did. How are you going to tell me I have to inject my children with something when we dont even know the long term effects it will have on them and you dont even know how to cure cancer yet?

Add more funding and free health care for anyone who suffer any medical issues from it including insignificant issues such as 1 cough.

It isn’t necessary, it is against ethical rights forcing the people that live in this country to take vaccinations, and then banning them from doing anything without punishment. There are people like me that live so remote it would be impossible for the virus to reach us, and many with underlying health conditions that the vaccine COULD have an effect on.

I believe in autonomy and the right to choose how to raise your family due to personal or religious beliefs

No way should the government (or anyone) be able to force people to put drugs into their children or themselves

My body, my choice. Where there is risk, there must be choice. Their safety profile is much, much worse and their effectiveness is much, much lower than claimed. In reality, it’s a money making scam and there’s a reason the manufacturers have indemnity- the lawsuits for harm caused would cost them too much money and it wouldn’t be financially worth it.

No way! It’s completely a parents choice and should always be, if they want their kids vaccinated or not and they should be given proper informed consent of all the possible risks and side effects and safety.

There are many views on the safety of vaccinations. Parents should be allowed to make an informed decision.

People should have autonomy over their own bodies. Vaccination should be available but a choice not a requirement.

People should have autonomy over their own bodies, same as abortions or any other substance use. Vaccination should be available but a choice not a requirement.

Vacinations have almost eliminated diseases like polio. Polio has reimerged due to peoples reluctance to be vacinated. Vacinations reduce the burden on our medical system. Compare new Zealand death per capita rate of 52.88 deaths per 100,000 population with Sweden's 235.43 deaths per 100,000 (source: Johns Hopkins) and you can see that the different approach to the pandemic possibly saved a number of lives.

It should never be the governments decision on what we put into our bodies they have no right. Telling everyone they have a choice but than stripping them from their rights, jobs etc and pushing them into a corner where some people feel they have no option is not called giving them a fair choice.

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their will.

New Zealanders should have a **** ing choice it’s rape to force something into somebody’s body like that and absolutely disgusting the vaccine only keeps those who have it safe so if you want to be safe get the vaccine if someone doesn’t want it and to try to get over the virus without them let them

The government has no right to enforce a medical paradigm on all people regardless of their world view nor force people to take drugs against their will.

Mandated vaccines are an over reach of any government. People should have a choice. No doubt, astronomical amounts of money were made for some companies through the lockdown and many lost their lives and livelihoods. Sad.

Everyone should have a choice of what they put into their bodies. There’s no way that one drug fits all.

Human rights are individual to that human. A entity, corporation, business etc are not individual humans and naturally do not act as human

Govt should not be able to enforce what people put into their bodies. Creates a lack of body autonomy.

One effective counter argument against mandatory vaccinations is rooted in the principle of bodily autonomy and individual rights. Advocates against mandatory vaccinations often argue that individuals should have the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies without government coercion. They believe that forcing individuals to receive vaccinations infringes upon their fundamental rights and personal freedoms.

Moreover, opponents of mandatory vaccinations may argue that there are alternative measures to encourage vaccination rates, such as education campaigns, incentives, and improving…  Read more access to vaccines, rather than resorting to mandates. They might also emphasize the importance of building trust in the healthcare system and addressing concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy through transparent communication and robust scientific evidence.

Look at the recent measle outbreak in Samoa. A lot of new born babies died and many more were left with disabilities.

I don't know any stats but it greatly reduces disease and morbidity and mortality in children and the whole community if there are mandatory vaccines

Its not clear to me that forcing people to vaccinate is the right approach but rather a penalty if you do catch the dease you refused to vaccinate for you pay for your own treatment dont want my tax dollars spent on idiots, caveat here if they cant have it etc then obviously they are exempt. Natural selection exists for a reason dont stop it.

Are we going to have proper documentation for adverse reactions and proper care for those who have reactions. Will doctors be educated better on how to handle reactions

People should have autonomy over their body, especially in regards to vaccines with potentially life altering side effects. Drug companies are companies at the end of the day and will focus on profit and not the general health of a nation.

There is only a small chance for children over 10 to get viruses and kids hate getting vaccinations.