The Global Emancipation of the Unvaccinated

A person holds up a signs as people hold a rally in support of a group of teachers fighting enforcement of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school employees at Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, in New York City, on Oct. 12, 2021. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Commentary

A popular argument against the various vaccine mandates imposed upon citizens the world over is that they violate the Nuremberg Code of 1947. Many an article points out that the Code states that, as regards any experimental medical treatment, “the voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential ... without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion.”