I think 'Trust the soyence bro' and labeling anything negative about vaccines a conspiracy theory is probably what convinces people on the fence to become anti vaxxers.
By debunking I don't mean labeling them negatively but fact-checking the claims and showing reasonable people on the fence provable evidence to help them think for themselves based on facts and not just to blindly believe the sensationalist rumors.
Taxes are payments that a citizen is morally and legally obliged to pay the state for upkeep and services. Not paying taxes is essentially stealing from others.
There is no moral or legal obligation to have a vaccine. Choosing to not have a vaccine is not stealing from anyone else. It does not reduce the effectiveness of their vaccination.
In fact, a large chunk of people could choose not to be vaccinated and we will still crush COVID-19. They should have the choice - why should everyone be strong-armed into having it if it's not necessary and they're not comfortable with it?
But I do wonder how the vaccine requirement will play out, Texas for instance does not force the vaccine upon it's population, which i think is the right way to go about it.
The Malaria vaccine was one i skipped due to side effects and i think you should have a similar free choice for the Corona vaccine.
I don't know how I can make you see that it is precisely this kind of talk that's scaring regular people into being anti-vax.
It's against the Nuremberg code.
Just like with flu vaccines every year, once the high risk groups are vaccinated there is no need for the rest of society to take these vaccines.
You DO NOT have some right to impose yourself on the rest of us. We do not have any requirement to associate with you or to tolerate your presence. If you represent a risk then we have the right to exclude you if we think you are choosing this path to be a free rider rather than due to some medical necessity. I would say that the amount of self-declared selfishness here is shocking, but if we have learned anything over the past few years it is that a sizeable fraction of our society is composed of people who are best avoided if possible.
We need to encourage as many people to be vaccinated as possible in order to help protect this other group. And we need to avoid causing even more harm to this group by excluding them from society.
Vaccine 'passports' are nothing new. We kind of all have them already. If you travel to some parts of Africa you already need a proof of vaccination (yellow fever). How is Covid-19 any different? It's here now, there's little we can do apart from all of us getting vaccinated and slowly getting back to normal lives. I just wish the whole world would get vaccinated at the same time.