Anti-Vaxxers Are Terrified the Government Will ‘Enforce’ a Vaccine for Covid (2020)

Just for the sake of geeking out, here are some definitions from other dictionaries I could find:

Macmillan [1]: someone who believes that vaccinations are harmful to human health and so refuses to vaccinate their children against childhood diseases

Lexico (Oxford) [2]: A person who is opposed to vaccination.

Cambridge [3]: someone who does not agree with vaccinating people (= giving them injections to prevent disease) and spreads and encourages opinions against vaccines

Wikitionary [4]: A person who opposes vaccination, as for its purported dangerous effects.

Dictionary.com [5]: a person who distrusts or is against vaccination, especially a parent who refuses to have a young child vaccinated.

American Heritage [6] and Longman [7]: It seems that they do not have an entry. Collins also doesn't have an entry, but apparently there was a suggestion for adding it in 2015. [8]

[1]: https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/anti-...

[2]: https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/anti-vaxxer

[3]: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/antivaxx...

[4]: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=anti-vaxxer&oldi...

[5]: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/antivaxxer

[6]: https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=anti-vaxxer

[7]: https://www.ldoceonline.com/spellcheck/english/?q=anti-vaxxe...

[8]: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/15399/Anti-Vaxx...

Merriam-Webster also changed the definition of "vaccine".

Jan 18th, 2021: https://web.archive.org/web/20210118193104/https://www.merri...

> a preparation of killed microorganisms, living attenuated organisms, or living fully virulent organisms that is administered to produce or artificially increase immunity to a particular disease

Now:

> a preparation that is administered (as by injection) to stimulate the body's immune response against a specific infectious agent or disease

I didn't address that. I just said if you oppose mandatory vaccines, you are classified as "antivax". It may even turn out that the folks opposing mandatory vaccines were in fact acting in the morally correct manner (if for some reason it does turn out there is a systemic risk introduced by the vaccine that greatly exceeds the risks it reduces), although that is both unlikely to occurr, and unlikely to be vindicating.

Implying vaccines are addictive is either trolling, ignorance, or willful stupidity. Please come up with better, more informed kinds of industry hate.