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That is absolutely ridiculous.

Not really though. If you go back 2 years, people who were opposed to mandatory vaccinations were generally people who thought their children shouldn't be required to get vaccinated against measles. Vaccine mandates are crucial social policy

No, they are not crucial social policy. You will have to accept that democracy does not mean that everyone has to be of the same opinion as you.

> Vaccine mandates are crucial social policy

Maybe the reason USA has so many anti vaccers is because of vaccine mandates? It is much easier to believe that something is evil when you are forced to do it. Also many first world countries doesn't mandate vaccines and people get vaccinated anyway, so it isn't crucial social policy.

Exactly. COVID is so deadly, that people have to be coerced and mandated into taking it, when in the beginning of all of this, most were walking around asymptomatic with it.

No, that’s probably not the reason. The anti-COVID stuff preceded discussion of vaccine mandates. Europe has mandatory childhood vaccinations and not the same level of anti-vaccine sentiment.

No, it really is. You're ignoring the fact that the definition was changed in order to shame people who are against mandating COVID vaccines.

According to what?

They're wrong.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/descriptive-vs...

Or they are tools for a medical totalitarian dystopia. 2 years ago there were effectively zero exception free vaccine mandates, and only a very few places where they were actually hard to get.

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