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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I'm anti-vax: I'm vaccinated, I strongly encourage people I know to get vaccinated, I am pro incentives (e.g., lotteries) for vaccination, I am pro the right of private businesses to fire unvaccinated employees... but I am against laws that mandate vaccination.
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ZUBY:
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The Merriam-Webster dictionary has changed their definition of 'anti-vaxxer' to include 'people who oppose laws that mandate vaccination'. Welcome to 1984. This is The Ministry of Truth.
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mimi
@mimi10v3
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@Aella_Girl
Are you against vax requirements for public school attendance (in general and/or for covid)? Because you can go private or homeschool, but it's certainly a significant burden...
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@mimi10v3
I'm against the existence of public schools *in general*; it's not clear to me whether vax requirements for public school attendance feels rights-violatey or not. Imo if you require vaxxes in school, then you shouldn't tax anti-vaxxers who don't have kids in public school.
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Mr Jaxon
@MrCJaxon
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@Aella_Girl
What’s remarkable about this argument is we’ve had vaccine mandates for decades. You can’t go to college in dorm without proving you’ve been vaccinated. I’m pretty sure there have been travel vaccine requirements as well. This whole thing is absurd. Vaccine mandates aren’t new.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@MrCJaxon
iirc i didn't have to prove vaccination when I went to college, and I never once had to prove vaccination when I did my somewhat extensive traveling a few years ago.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@NikkevMarshall
People's agency over their own bodies is something I place pretty far up my value list; I'd accept a lot of damaging tradeoffs before I sacrifice that one.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@vituperativeerb
It's a grey area. I assume if I caught covid and went about my life as though I had a flu, that this would result in significantly fewer deaths than if I drunk drove once a day for the same duration. If this isn't the case then I think that might be enough to change my mind
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