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I'm surprised to find this many anti vaxxers on hn. I would have expected that the community was a lot more rational.

Don't conflate 'anti-vax' with 'anti-vax-mandate'. The two positions have entirely different scientific and moral bases. I would think the second group is also much larger.

They've changed the definition to obfuscate this very important point.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vaxxer

>Definition of anti-vaxxer

>: a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination

Thats a lie.

It's been the definition since at least 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181125060933/https://www.merri...

Probably they made an assumption after the definition of "vaccine" was changed on there earlier this year.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210108224740/https://www.merri...

vs.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaccine

It's a lie? You literally pointed out that they changed it in 2018. Thank you for proving my point.

You claimed that "THEY" changed the definition, based on a dictionary. This would imply that the definition was changed during covid to include "mandate sceptics". The link shows that in 2018 it included "[...] laws that mandate vaccination". The only real difference is that the former definition uses the word "laws" and the current one "regulation". While the two words are not interchangeable, the definition on merriam-webster includes laws as a type of regulations.

Calling this a meaningful change of its definition that "THEY" did is nothing more than pedantic anti-vaxx bullshit.

Well, THEY have also changed the definition of "vaccine" and "pandemic" a long time ago. Go look it up.

It's nice to see so many critical thinkers on here. Aren't "hackers" partly defined by their distrust of authority?

The tech community here is pretty good around software and a limited amount of hardware. Once they venture into the world of biology, health etc they are only marginally more adept than the general public.

It's also predominately American, so you get a lot 'freedom at the expense of everyone else' ideas floating about.

It's wild how we can be vaccinated with two doses and still be considered an anti-vaxxer. Is this not doublespeak?

Precisely. Simultaneously believing that you are free to do with your own body as you like, whilst also inflicting upon others a forced medical procedure in the name of the "greater good"

Yeah, simultaneously believing that you are free to do with your own body as you like, whilst also inflicting upon others a forced medical procedure in the name of the "greater good"

I'm not surprised at all.

This site is a honeypot for anti authoritarian contrarians.

sadly, this is a pretty concise "nutshell".

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