A general obligation to vaccinate against Corona is currently politically off the table.
The Federal Constitutional Court has now approved compulsory vaccination against measles.
The encroachments on the physical integrity of the children and on parental rights are not insignificant.
But the vaccination serves the health of the children, and the weighing up is pretty clear.
Vaccination damage is extremely unlikely, but there is a high risk of infection and even the not insignificant risk of suffering a usually fatal disease as a late consequence.
Don't forget standards in the Corona debate either
And indeed it is a matter of life and death.
The goal of a higher vaccination rate gives the impression that better numbers are the purpose of this measure, which was decided in the course of the state's duty to protect.
It's all about protecting as many small children as possible from a dangerous illness by means of a comparatively mild intervention - an intervention, by the way, which one can also avoid in this case by caring for one's child differently.
Health care is the responsibility of the parents – but it is not unlimited either.
Parents are less free to go against "standard medical sanity" when it comes to their children.
That is reasonable - these standards should not be forgotten in the Corona debate either.