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Well then make it a law. No amount of reasoning will change these people's mind. The only anti-vax people I've seen get vaccinated are the ones who lost a close

Well then make it a law. No amount of reasoning will change these people's mind. The only anti-vax people I've seen get vaccinated are the ones who lost a close one, and even that does not always work, let alone some data viz.

throwaway2077 5y ago
>Well then make it a law cool. but let us not stop there. there are so many more public health hazards that we can solve that way.
zwieback 5y ago
yesterday I was in line to get my booster and I overheard an unvaccinated person get their first dose because their job offer was about to be rescinded. So, in addition to losing loved ones I think mandates do work. Putting it into law, like you suggest is harder, but giving companies green light for mandates is easier and does have some noticeable effect.
- chrismcb 5y ago
  Telling people the truth and not forcing them to get vaccinated will have a larger effect.
Godel_unicode 5y ago
I know tons of people who have been convinced by talking, and have been very active in matching up experts I personally know to people who have questions. This is a tractable problem in the majority of cases, it just requires empathy and patience. People are stressed, people are scared, people are exhausted. Righteous anger makes all of that worse.
Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
I am vehemently pro-vaxx, but I'm against making it law, as that is an attack on bodily autonomy. I'm fine with jobs requiring vaccination, and I'm fine with government jobs and public schools requiring vaccination, and even businesses (especially ones involving crowds of people, like conference/convention halls and cruise ships) requiring vaccination. It's basically saying, "You don't want to get vaccinated? Fine, then you don't get to participate in our society." But a law introducing criminal penalties for being unvaxxed? No way.

4 ms·

Well then make it a law. No amount of reasoning will change these people's mind. The only anti-vax people I've seen get vaccinated are the ones who lost a close

by curiousgal 5y ago

throwaway2077 5y ago
>Well then make it a law cool. but let us not stop there. there are so many more public health hazards that we can solve that way.
zwieback 5y ago
yesterday I was in line to get my booster and I overheard an unvaccinated person get their first dose because their job offer was about to be rescinded. So, in addition to losing loved ones I think mandates do work. Putting it into law, like you suggest is harder, but giving companies green light for mandates is easier and does have some noticeable effect.
- chrismcb 5y ago
  Telling people the truth and not forcing them to get vaccinated will have a larger effect.
Godel_unicode 5y ago
I know tons of people who have been convinced by talking, and have been very active in matching up experts I personally know to people who have questions. This is a tractable problem in the majority of cases, it just requires empathy and patience. People are stressed, people are scared, people are exhausted. Righteous anger makes all of that worse.
Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
I am vehemently pro-vaxx, but I'm against making it law, as that is an attack on bodily autonomy. I'm fine with jobs requiring vaccination, and I'm fine with government jobs and public schools requiring vaccination, and even businesses (especially ones involving crowds of people, like conference/convention halls and cruise ships) requiring vaccination. It's basically saying, "You don't want to get vaccinated? Fine, then you don't get to participate in our society." But a law introducing criminal penalties for being unvaxxed? No way.