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Anti-vaccine legislation is on the rise after the Covid-19 pandemic (vox.com)
2 points by _Microft on Oct 6, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



Is it all vaccines or just Covid? Those required for kids to attend school? Those required to work in high-cleanliness biological establishments? Those required to travel to other countries? Will they prevent private businesses from requiring them of guests and customers? Does this make flu shots frowned upon, and suppressed in some states? How about monkeypox? Polio?

I guess people just lack empathy and just can't stand being inconvenienced, eh?


Being forced to put something in your body is more than an inconvenience. It's a delicate subject and there was a lot of fear, misinformation, and absolutism around covid.


True, but it's been done for decades at least if not longer (considering things like smallpox/cowpox). Nobody was forced to take the Covid vaccines to exist. They were required to interact with people in certain areas and activities. Are you proposing that the rights of the dissenters were more important that the rights of those interested in reduced risk?

So it's not inconvenience, it's selfishness?


Is covid more like the flu or smallpox? Do the respective vaccines prevent the disease? Is this difference important to the discussion?

Is it selfish to force your ideas on others, whatever they might be? probably




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