Antivax types are all anti pushing vaccine on to people but if they don’t want to get vaccinated then it still won’t affect vaccinated folks. From my rough understanding, getting vaccinated keeps you alive or get less severe symptoms, but you can still pass it on.

So if antivax people don’t get it, then why not just let them die?

Edit: guys, I’m not antivax, I just don’t understand how herd immunity works.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I think mandatory vaccines won’t work. Especially in the US.

    …But organizations should be allowed to discriminate against antivaxxers.

    For example, want to fly? The airlines should be allowed (if not mandated) to screen for vaccines in a pandemic, and aggressively kick violators off.

    Restaurants want proof, to protect their staff and avoid infecting customers? Great. Give them the legal right to discriminate. Perhaps grocery stores should segment certain hours for antivaxxers.

    Look, people do things for all sorts of reasons and that’s fine. But anti vaxxers can either have their cake, or eat it. They aren’t some special protected class that gets to put others at risk. They don’t get to dictate other people’s lives if they don’t want to be dictated to.

    And all this would be just fine with the immunocompromised and their caregivers, I think.