If you "oppose vaccine mandates" you don't understand how vaccines work and are antivax, full stop. Their individual effects are far less potent without the herd effects.
And here we go - now "anti-vax" also means "opposed to the government using force to make every single person to take certain medication". That's as stupid as saying somebody is "pro-murder" because they oppose the idea of people spending all their lives under house arrest - under the theory that this would reduce the number of murders. Since you oppose the action that reduces the number of murders - you are clearly "pro-murder"!
You retained your bodily rights with the covid vaccine because nobody forced you to take it - full stop. You forfeited certain public privileges by opting out of the vaccine because you made yourself a lethal threat (a literal plague rat) to others. Next you'll be saying that driving drunk is your bodily right too.
Grandstanding and pretending you're under house arrest or had a gun to your head is bordering on a persecution fetish. Intentional motivation or not, the actions of rejecting the covid vaccine for non-medical reasons is definitely pro-plague.
It's makes as much sense as saying when the mugger on the street says
"your wallet or your life", it's just a proposal for a voluntary transaction - after all, if you give up your wallet, no harm will come to you, and it's certainly entirely in your free choice to choose just that. And if you make yourself a threat to him by refusing to give him so needed cash - well, it's on you mate.
> Grandstanding and pretending you're under house arrest or had a gun to your head is bordering on a persecution fetish
I think your reading comprehension is lacking. Please try to read on the concept of "analogy". I gave you one more above as an exercise. To make it easier for you, I will reveal now that I did not actually claim people are getting robbed when vaccinated, and people are not actually getting shot when they refuse to get vaccinated. The point of the "analogy" thing is to emphasize a certain structure of the situation by imagining some other situation - "other" is the key word here, meaning the situation is not the same - which shares some structural element with the situation being illustrated. In this case, something being a "free choice" seemingly, but due to very grave consequences attached to one of the choices, not being choice at all but rather an exercise in coercion - which in both cases btw nobody is really intending to hide, the coercive element is there precisely because only one result is considered acceptable by the coercing power. Hope this helps you with understanding the concept behind the "analogy" device.
> you don't understand how vaccines work and are antivax, full stop.
To quote the GGP: People get applied unrepresentative negative labels because they ask questions, challenge points, have different opinions or simply take principled stances.
Your comment: Q.E.D.
> Their individual effects are far less potent without the herd effects.
Herd immunization was estimated to be reached with 60-70% of vaccination. I'd be totally in favor of as much campaigning as possible to get to those levels. I was rushing to get the vaccines whenever I could just to contribute to this number.
At the same time, I don't think it is morally justified to force anyone to inject a substance in their bodies.
Even if the number was higher, I was still encouraging people to get the vaccine. Even when it was clear that vaccine was not that effective to stop infection or reduce spread, I would still tell people "at least it can help you to build up your own immunity". But I would never defend the idea people should be forced or compelled to get the vaccine.
