I feel pretty good about the safety and efficacy of the current vaccines, but the discourse is poisonous bordering on religious zealotry. What happens when vaccine with genuine safety issues comes along and is mandated?
I totally agree that it's nonsensical. The tendency of many people to conflate the positions of "X is a good thing to do" and "everyone should be forcibly compelled to do X" is routinely frustrating.
Many people do in fact use the term anti-vaxx(er) to refer to people who are against vaccines and also against regulations around them.
It's just coincidental that many in the political arena and media started to label their opponents as anti-vaxxers for questioning mandates.
I'm not against skepticism or conspiracy theories, but this one doesn't really make sense. Word usage and dictionary definitions update all the time.
I wouldn’t be surprised about the opportunistic chances to push an ideology taken by supposedly apolitical orgs. There are examples all over even if you don’t want to see it.
So I was willing to believe that MW made a small addendum to their previous definition of antivaxxer. Despite it being a cheap and dirty abuse of their institution.
But no. They removed it entirely and replaced it with exactly what you said. Wtf.
Opposing a vaccine mandate for completely precedent and objectifiable legal reasons “now makes” you an antivaxxer huh?
Well… I’m new to the club apparently, where do I pick up my Karen haircut and homeopathic treatments?
https://vaden.stanford.edu/about/entrance-health-requirement...