Australia won’t be the last country to wrestle with a mandatory coronavirus vaccine

Mandatory coronavirus vaccines make cold logical sense. At least 70% of a population needs to be inoculated to create herd immunity, and governments could easily achieve that rate of coverage if they demanded vaccines for all. Australia discovered the pitfalls of this rationale after the prime minister Scott Morrison announced a coronavirus vaccine would be “as mandatory as you can possibly make” earlier this week (Aug. 18).