Could you be in a relationship with an anti-vaxxer?

[Anon778833]

Or someone who thinks Covid doesn't exist?

YANBU = no

YABU = yes

No. Most of them I've come across are nut jobs

No.

No.

Because there would be too many other things we’d inevitably disagree on.

No. Especially not if they were ideologically opposed to vaccination/ health precautions.

No

@MaMelon

No - I prefer my partners to educate themselves using sources other than Facebook and TikTok

Yes.

It depends. There is a difference between an anti-vaxxer and someone who has genuine hesitance about getting the covid vaccine. An anti-vaxxer, no, as intelligence is one of the most important qualities in a person for me. The latter...maybe.

No.

I also wouldn't be in a relationship with an extrovert, a bodybuilder, a vegan or a fussy eater.

No.
Because I've yet to meet one that didn't believe in a whole lot of other mad stuff as well.

I was about to say pretty much what @millymollymoomoo said.

I am 100% for the vaccine and am double-jabbed but I could absolutely respect and be in a relationship with someone who chose not to or had questions/doubts.

And I think the term ‘anti-vaxxer’ is pretty divisive. Rational, right thinking people on one side and ‘anti-vaxxers’ on the other. But it’s rarely that simple when you actually talk to people and listen to their reasoning and feelings there is plenty of nuance. (A bit like when I went for my vaccine, and I take every vaccine offered, I did have a moment of nerves and wondering what if I got side effects.)

Yes- I’ve had my 2 vaccines, my partner does not want them. He wanted Brexit, I didn’t.

Unbelievably (not to me, but it seems that way on here) we get on brilliantly. It is possible not to agree on everything and still get on well, something I’m finding the modern world seems to grasp less and less.

I once read a phrase about religion- “religion is like a penis. It’s fine to admire it and be proud of it. It’s quite another to shove it in someone’s face”. The same could be said of politics and opinions generally I think.

@Crunchymum

people who misuse question marks worry me....next stop is five exclamation marks then its foil hat central everybody off the bus

Go ahead, belittle me and make me look stupid. It doesn't invalidate my point. Just makes you look a bit rude.

then my job here is done

I paraphrase that phrase- but I hope you get the idea

No because he is 2* jabbed and I have seen the app certificates, and went with him.

No.

I once read a phrase about religion- “religion is like a penis. It’s fine to admire it and be proud of it. It’s quite another to shove it in someone’s face”. The same could be said of politics and opinions generally I think.

😂

@OaxacaChihuahua

No. I highly value intelligence in a partner.

This.

When you say “anti-Vaxxer” do you mean someone who thinks the covid vaccines are a bad thing in general and would never consider them?

Or do you include vaccine hesitant?

No, not if they could have them

I think it's only 'your body, your choice' when it doesn't affect the population

No if an anti-vaxxer, but vaccine hesitancy is a very different beast. I know quite a few intelligent, lovely women who have concerns about the effect of the vaccine on their fertility. It would be very easy for me, a fully jabbed but older female with two children, to sit and tell them they have nothing to worry about. I think that if there genuinely is no risk, the focus should be on getting that message out there rather than vilifying them for a genuine concern.

COVID denier - absolutely not.

@MyCatDribbles

When you say “anti-Vaxxer” do you mean someone who thinks the covid vaccines are a bad thing in general and would never consider them?

Or do you include vaccine hesitant?

Yes I'd like to know this too. Does "anti vaxxer" mean full on conspiracy theorist, or does it include those who believe in the existence of Covid and do not subscribe to conspiracy theories, but are simply hesitant / anxious about the vaccine?

No...

but i have noticed the only anti-vaxxers i know also happen to be illegal drug users... i can't fathom how they'll happily put that shit in their body week in/week out, but not get a vaccine.

Questioning is not the same as being anti-vaxx/covid denier though, and i think that difference needs to be made.

I don't have time for conspiracy theorists though.

No

No