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Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy would like to have a word about that "new category of social identification that has been naturalized by COVID-19 propaganda and did not exist in the popular imagination prior to the year 2021".

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Well this is a semantic and socio-political question and not a scientific/medical one, but ok. Generally, the term there was "antivaxxer" and referred to people who were vocally opposed to vaccines, or in some cases who those hadn't had their children undergo the usual course of routine vaccinations. In a few cases it was even applied more broadly to people who were simply opposed to mandating childhood vaccinations to attend public school, regardless of their own vaccination status. This is all clearly a completely different category from the 2021 incarnation of "the unvaccinated."

> Well this is a semantic and socio-political question and not a scientific/medical one

You submitted an article from the "Journal for the Critical Study of Society", why would you expect medical questions, or medical discussion?

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