I know you're too stupid to understand this, but refusal to take the COVID shot is not the same as being anti-vax. Know what I did when I put a nail through my thumb a couple years ago? Immediately went to get a tetanus shot. Tried and true to work, long track record of being safe. Neither of which can be said about COVID shots, yet. I also have two young kids, both of whom are fully up on vaccinations.
Yeah I think the COVID vaccine is good and people should get it but I completely agree that being hesitant to get it doesn't make one anti-vax. I actually think labelling everybody this way is going to backfire and create a lot more actual anti-vax sentiment.
The problem is that--like every damned thing in the last two decades--taking a fucking vaccine or wearing a mask became a political statement, and 24 hour news and social media turned politics into a team sport that everyone mistakenly believes they're smart enough to participate in a long time ago. When Democrats rubbed it Republicans' faces that the vaccine rollout was a shitshow, the die was cast and Team Blue and Team Red were suddenly established on their respective sides of the battlefield.
I guess what I'm saying is that I chinned @BleachedAnusDawg's post for qualifying the difference between anti-vax nutters and anti-COVID[/i]-vax, as hesitancy to the latter is a lot more understandable, particularly in light of recent developments that have caused somebody like myself who got the jab to suddenly have little to no benefit from it socially (and if my kids get held out of school again this year, I'm going fucking postal). That being said, if the reason to be hesitant to the COVID vaccine is a bunch of Red/Blue go-team ball-licking, I'm out.
Which brings me to why I chinned @DNC's post, as he's right: because it's political, everyone's got their heels dug in. Putting a label of any kind on somebody for not taking the vaccine is just going to increase hesitancy. Flies, honey, yadda yadda.