It seems like they were actually antivax but did not want the social stigma associated with the term. "I'm not antivax but however yadda yadda"
It reminds me of the classical "Racism is pretty fun because it does not exists, just ask around you'll see nobody is"
In the U. S., it would have been a sentence ripped right out of the jackass playbook: “I’m not a racist, but…”, <says blatantly racist statement>.
“Now look, I’m not racist but the dry air this winter has done a number on my sinuses”
One of my friends says he is not vegetarian or vegan, he just doesn't eat meat and tells everyone they should not eat meat.
In more general terms, outside of covid for a moment, do you think so? If you have been vaccinated for X, Y, and Z, but think the risks of vaccinating for R out weigh the benefits, does that make you antivax?
Conversely, if there's someone for whom medical consensus agrees is legitimately better off without vaccines (e.g: due to some immune system condition), then I wouldn't call them antivax.
Most vaccine deaths seem to be among 20 somethings
There's no evidence you have for this assertion that for children the vaccine is more dangerous than the illness. Neither are particularly dangerous at all for young children, but the disease has been linked to deaths in children.
Subsequently better evidence became available, and it was decided to extend vaccination to under-18s.
Perhaps whatshisface is merely recalling six-month-old official advice?
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccinat...