Vaccines are great, but I do not think that it is wise for societies to give the power of exercising a vaccine mandate to a centralized authority. The laws that are being passed, the infrastructure that is being put in place in order to be able to contact-trace and confirm vaccination status, as well as the precedent that is being set that allows efficiently deploying punishments via social exclusion over a whole population, are all things that have me (reasonably?) concerned.
According to Merriam-Webster’s updated definition for anti-vaxxer, this makes me fall in the anti-vaxxer category despite being vaccinated and actively encouraging others to get vaccinated themselves. I find this to be a very transparent example of political polarization via propaganda, and I think that accepting ideological differences and trying to work out solutions together rather than giving into this extreme “anti-vax” polarization would be more healthy for society in the long term.
Seize the means of vaccination! I am not antivax. I am anti-tax-money-funnelling-to-few-cooperations. Make vaccines open. Release the source code! Vaccinate the public!
They are eejits. Though pro vaxers can be eejits too. Vaccines are a difficult ethical topic. Nobody is 100% right, but anyone with an extreme black/white view is definitely wrong.
But it’s hard to find non polarised people on the internet.
its a personal choice to make if you want to get the vaccine or not, and you shouldnt form your opinions on the vaccine based on whats said on social media; read an article, or talk to smeone you know whos had the vaccine, i think people would get a clearer view that way.
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i agree that communities should encourage, and lightly pressure people to get the vaccine, but like you said it shouldnt be mandatory to get the vaccine. and most people want to get the vaccine anyway, because they know that the vaccine is the best proven way to protect themselves from Covid-19.
Unfortunately, they don’t know that. In my country, the vaccine had been freely available for 1 year and only 20% vaccinated before restrictions based on the COVID vaccination certificate were put in place. Thousands died in that time and more started to vaccinate only after they weren’t allowed in bars and malls anymore. If everyone vaccinated as soon as the vaccine was available, we wouldn’t have had these restrictions nowadays.
