Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, IX Wieków Kielc 19A, 25-317 Kielce, Poland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 27;19(21):14003. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192114003.
In December 2021, the Minister of Health in Poland announced via Twitter that vaccination was not compulsory. Such a message from a public authority, who was to a significant extent responsible for organising the process of preventing and combating the infections caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, appeared to have a negative impact on the public perception of the role of vaccination in combating this disease. The impossibility of directly enforcing vaccination, in the sense that there is no legal basis for its compulsory administration, should not weaken the sense of obligation towards a socially necessary attitude of vaccination as a means of protecting the population against the disease; this should be promoted by public authorities. An auxiliary role in shaping this type of message should be played by the law of appropriate quality, regulating the rules related to vaccination in a way that encourages citizens' trust in the state and the law.
2021 年 12 月，波兰卫生部长在推特上宣布接种疫苗不是强制性的。作为在很大程度上负责组织预防和控制由 SARS-CoV-2 大流行引起的感染的公共机构，这样的信息似乎对公众对疫苗接种在抗击这种疾病中的作用的看法产生了负面影响。由于没有法律依据可以强制接种疫苗，因此无法直接强制执行疫苗接种，这不应削弱人们对将接种疫苗作为保护民众免受疾病侵害的一种社会必要态度的义务感；这应该由公共当局来推动。适当质量的法律应该在塑造这种信息类型方面发挥辅助作用，以鼓励公民对国家和法律的信任的方式来规范与接种疫苗相关的规则。
