[StavrosK]

I don't understand how people are fine with the TSA going through their luggage unmonitored for "omg terrorism" yet keeping a list of vaccinations for preventing a disease that has killed more people than all terrorists hits combined is dystopian.

All the conspiracy theories I've heard about the vaccine sound like child's play compared to a US airport.

[caeril]

Same reason we become much more animated when discussing abortion restriction, identification tattoos/implants, roadside blood draws, and other forms of abrogation of bodily autonomy.

There is an enormous difference in the personal sense of bodily violation between finding dildos in your checked luggage and being injected, against your will, with closed-source nucleotide chains that hack your own ribosomes.

Not to defend the TSA at all, but it's a much, much, more personal matter to have things done to our bodies than to our property.

[StavrosK]

"Things done to our bodies" describes all of medicine. Why the furore now? We already vaccinate all children and we agree that it's for the best, but when it comes to vaccinating adults to save them from the plague it's dystopian?

[caeril]

Well, we definitely don't vaccinate all children. US compliance rate for the seven-series is only 70%, and only 82% for the three-series (DTaP, Polio, MMR). So the culture of noncompliance even for fifty-year-old vaccine designs is still there.

That said, medicine is largely a voluntary affair. Nobody is getting up in arms over people choosing to get vaccinated; rather, they're bristling at the idea of being forced to do it, or at the very least suffering severe repercussions or going on a watchlist for choosing not to.

[ghthor]

Thanks for your response, I dont understand the downvotes.