> the experts we trust

Who is this we? At least in America, we had a very... lets say curated view of what was known being blasted out over all major info channels, with any dissenting voices (yes, even credentialed ones!) being punished. In a lot of other places, I don't think my position was a controversial one.

> I seriously doubt that you have the sort of medical credentials that would be required to get any serious person to take your word over those of the world class epidemiologists, virologists, etc who said the opposite.

Which is why I'm thankful the authoritarians haven't won everything yet, so I don't need anybody's permission to do the right thing, when everyone else is blithely going along to get along.

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staticassertion 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I suspect that people are labeling you an "anti vaxxer" not because of your decision to not receive the vaccine after already having had covid, but because of your rhetoric. "the jab", general and vague criticisms of medical industry, etc.

You're definitely giving off a vibe.

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ifyoubuildit an hour ago | parent [-]

You can at least draw a somewhat tortured connection between "anti vaccine" and opting out of receiving a specific vaccine (for logical reasons, with your doctors approval, though are they even a real doctor if they approved such a thing?).

But using the word "jab" or criticising the medical industry making you anti vaccine is the kind of thing I was talking about when I mentioned literacy.

The vibe you're getting is that I'm blaspheming. I'm saying things that probably hundreds of millions, possibly even billions of marketing dollars were spent to discourage being said.

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staticassertion an hour ago | parent [-]

All you have to do to make it really clear that you're not an antivaxxer is say that the COVID vaccine is largely safe, most people should get it barring medical exceptions, etc.

Everything else is kind of irrelevant. It just feels like you're dancing around this and talking about how slighted you are for not getting it. It's a really easy "solve".

Don't be pissy when you use the same exact phrasing and talking points as antivaxxers and then people assume you are one. It's trivial to demonstrate that you are not.

	▲	ifyoubuildit 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, all I have to do to make it clear is say "I'm not opposed to vaccines as some kind of principle, ideological or otherwise", and then you can either believe me or not. That's what anti vaccine means, despite all the efforts to redefine it. It doesn't mean "won't recite the marketing materials for a specific pharmaceutical product when prompted".