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The document discusses whether mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for international travel violates freedom of movement as a human right. It argues that under international law, governments have an obligation to prevent and control epidemics for public health. While vaccination should not be strictly mandatory, it is important for achieving herd immunity and protecting communities. The document draws on ideas from Plato, Hobbes, and Aristotle to argue that individual rights and freedoms must sometimes be limited to serve the greater common good of public health and safety during a pandemic.

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The document discusses whether mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for international travel violates freedom of movement as a human right. It argues that under international law, governments have an obligation to prevent and control epidemics for public health. While vaccination should not be strictly mandatory, it is important for achieving herd immunity and protecting communities. The document draws on ideas from Plato, Hobbes, and Aristotle to argue that individual rights and freedoms must sometimes be limited to serve the greater common good of public health and safety during a pandemic.

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Kimberly Joy L.

Lungay POS140 - A5
"The mandatory covid-19 vaccination for those who travel abroad is a violation of the
freedom of movement as a universal human right"
The Coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on all our lives. The alarming levels of
spread and severity that has led to the deaths of millions of people around the world, the WHO
called for governments to take urgent action to stop the spread of the virus. The WHO then
authorized COVID-19 vaccines that have been shown to be safe and efficacious. Though
COVID-19 pandemic and the measures enacted to contain it has controversial affect on the
international human rights, it protects the health and well-being of the public. Under
the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, governments are obligated
to take effective steps for the “prevention, treatment and control of epidemic, endemic,
occupational and other diseases.” To prevent putting others in danger, it is important to take the
vaccine, as desires come after needs. But should make few exceptions to vulnerable people who
are unable to take the vaccine due to medical complications. In Plato's perception, Common
Good is ultimately associated with laws that hold the community together and from which all
members profit. Even though the proposition doesn't seem proper to make it mandatory,
however, it might be argued that it is essential for the purpose of wellbeing and public health.
Plato’s ideal of the Common Good offered prescription such as the individual can
achieve happiness only if he or she strives for keeping up just standards of community life. In
other words, individual happiness depends on the state of happiness of the entire community and,
thus, communitarian happiness overrides individual happiness. Hence, protecting public health
and saving people's lives are the main priorities during a pandemic. In connection, with the
international human rights standards, governments can interfere to the limitation of certain
human rights as legal if it is conducted in accordance with the established procedures and in
compliance with the regulations governing the implementation of emergency measures
introduced in order to protect health as a ‘necessity to control the spreading of infectious
diseases’. In my postulation, getting a vaccination makes you selfish and selfless at the same
time. Selfish because you don’t want to be infected with the virus, selfless because you don't
want others to be infected through you. Hobbes said in social contract, we willingly give up
certain freedoms in exchange for security. In which according to Plato, sacrifices for
safeguarding the common good in the sense of communitarian intactness are expected from
everyone; supported by communitarianism ideology, emphasizing the interests of the community
over those of the individual.
Thus, as a member in a community that has privileges and obligation, with a goal
to obtain “the greatest happiness for the greatest number" or "eudaimonia" in a utilitarianism
ideology, Aristotle says it is in accord with virtue in ways that resemble the method of inquiry of
his mentor, Plato. For him, "a polis exists for the sake of a good life,” and human beings, as
political animals, lead a good life by contributing to the good of the community. To summarize,
"Justice is neither the right of the strong nor the advantage of the stronger, but the right of the
best and the advantage of the whole community" asserted by Plato. Conclusively, human rights
include rights to be protected from harm. Therefore, the proposition is for the common good
especially in a sense that the spread of disease from person to person becomes unlikely when
herd immunity is achieved.

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