This is a difficult area. At her death she was unvaccinated. That was on top of her anti-mandate stance. If I died tomorrow I'd be known as someone who was ardently pro-vaccination and fully-jabbed and ardently opposed to vaccine mandates. To me, these are entirely separate issues.

We should be campaigning in a concerted way to persuade everyone to take the vaccine. There are very few people who have a good excuse to avoid vaccination. The campaign needs to be two-pronged, first, to undo the serious damage done to public health by Facebook and others, second, to emphasise that getting vaccinated is the biggest contribution you can currently make to the health and safety of everyone (as well as yourself). To hell with the "free speech" of anti-vaxxers. They seriously need to be silenced. The massive achievement of the vaccines can't be gainsaid. And they are safer than going out into the street and crossing the road, drinking a glass of wine, smoking dope or eating burgers.

But forcing people to have the jabs under pain of losing your job is, to me, the wrong way to get people onside. Take them aside, advise them, counsel them, make things inconvenient for them in the workplace if that means making other people safer. I don't think it's the role of states to make rules about mandating vaccines. If I ran a football stadium I wouldn't let you in if you were Novak Djokovic. It's my stadium (or pub, or shop, or festival) and I get to decide who comes in and who doesn't. When it comes to workplaces, every sinew must be strained to persuade. But throwing people of the scrapheap just makes everything worse. It's the ethos, stupid...