In his column in the Daily Telegraph, editor Fraser Myers wrote that the French had a long history of reluctance to take vaccinations, and that instead of reassuring the masses the government had resorted to an iron fist, which Myers considered vacillating from one extreme to the other.
The editor pointed out that when France began introducing the vaccine, it was among the slowest countries in the world, like many other European Union countries.
He stated that there was also a clear and deliberate reason for this slow start, as the French government wanted to clearly prove - especially to those reluctant to take the vaccine - that the vaccine was not imposed on anyone.
Now, there are no such reservations, as President Emmanuel Macron openly forces the public to vaccinate.
And last month he announced plans for vaccine passports that would go further than any other European country.
His plan - according to the editor - was that going to almost any public place, or working there, would require providing proof of vaccination, meaning that without vaccination, there is no freedom.
What may seem appropriate today - from total closures and school closures to mandatory vaccinations - can easily undermine confidence in government and in public health in the future.
Then the other threat came from Macron, which is that without vaccination there is no work, and thus anyone who works in the field of health care or the care profession or in a public place covered by the Vaccination Passport Law can be suspended from work, without pay, if he is unable to show His "health pass", or if he continues to refuse the vaccine or if he does not accept a new role in which he does not deal with the public.
But since this suspension is not considered complete dismissal, the worker will be deprived of unemployment benefits as well;
In other words, says the editor, any ordinary employee who refuses the vaccine can be financially ruined.
This was considered a huge adventure on the part of the French government in applying this amount of pressure, as France is among the most skeptical countries on vaccines on earth.
The editor concluded that what might seem appropriate today - from total closures and school closures to mandatory vaccination - can easily undermine confidence in government and in public health in the future, because mandatory vaccination turns wonderful life-saving vaccines into a tool of coercion and tyranny, and turns "public health". To an enemy of freedom and workers' rights.
This is why the voluntary principle is always preferable.