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by Retric 1759 days ago
Being anti vaccine seems like the definition of an antivaxx. What’s the difference in your mind?

The antivaxx community is filled with people willing to take some vaccines but not others.

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There is a difference between being anti-vaccine, meaning that you are against all vaccines, and being hesitant to receive a specific vaccine. Most people I know who are still waiting to receive the covid vaccine are all caught up on the typical vaccines and may even get the flu shot every year.
Most people in the antivaxx community are willing to take some vaccines. Being 100% anti vaccination was never the core issue.

Random article on the subject: You can essentially break anti-vaxxers into two groups, says Tim Caulfield, the Canada Research Chair in health law and policy at the University of Alberta. The first consists of full-on disbelievers who make up somewhere between two and five per cent of the population, depending on which study you look at. Their minds won’t be changed. The second group — somewhere between 20 and 30 per cent of Canadians — is for what some now call the vaccine-hesitant. They may get some of the required vaccinations for their children, but not all of them. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/who-are-the-anti-vaxxer...

> a difference between being anti-vaccine, meaning that you are against all vaccines, and being hesitant to receive a specific vaccine

Philosophically, yes. Practically, no. If you are voluntarily unvaccinated because you’re a nutter or are lazy, you’re the same risk to the public.

Being in favor of vaccines in general, but not the ones for COVID.
This is even worse in my mind.

"Oh I'm totally for vaccine, but not the one that went through full trials and helps stopping the actual pandemic going on right now, nope, that one is a no go better people keep dying when we could stop it"

It didn't go through full preclinical trials. What are you on about?
The normal sequence of tests aren’t about human safety for the general public their about human safety of the test subjects in the clinical trials including primates. So they did pre clinical trials like this one, but they did fast track to primate testing. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.280818v1

At this point we have more data on COVID vaccinations than most prescription medications as their so widespread.

That's like saying "if you dislike any single black person for any reason you're racist".
You only need to accept one vaccine for each disease, not every vaccine for each disease.