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

[Anon778833]

Or someone who thinks Covid doesn't exist?

YANBU = no

YABU = yes

Yes

Nope. I could've be with some one who just openly denies science.

No because I couldn’t be sexually attracted to someone thick.

Oh and also because antivaxxers are often taken with other unpleasant and right wing stuff such as antisemitism.

No, intelligence is probably the sexiest a person can have, I’m yet to come across an intelligent anti-vaxxer.

No way. I don’t do stupid.

This is hilarious 😂

No

I suppose it depends what for. Eg: annual flu vaccine, I encourage but ds and I have flu vaccines anyway.

Something like not having the mmr before ds was old enough to have, would be very unhappy.

Like pp said, I don't think I would leave dh over it. But I wouldn't start a relationship woth someone I knew to be antivaxx. I also wouldn't start a relationship with someone who smoked or vaped, but dh has and does.

Absolutely not.

The fact that a person is an ‘anti-vaxxer’ would indicate a lack of intellectual capacity, scientific literacy & critical thinking ability which would preclude me having a relationship of equals with them.

Or, to put it more bluntly, I don’t fuck morons.

No they could kill me as have serious lung condition so not a chance.

Do you mean anti this vax, with its numerous reported side-effects, or all vaccines?
Wouldn’t be a deal breaker either way.
Live and let live, OP.

@Crunchymum

It really is starting to fuck me off that people are either anti vaxxers or covid deniers and nothing in-between?

Someone who doesn't feel comfortable with a brand new, mass rolled out vaccine for themselves is not the same as someone who is an ardent and vocal anti-vaxxer who has not allowed their children to have any vaccinations?

Someone who poses questions about what has happened over the past 18 months is not a Covid denier.

These labels are reductive and often mostly incorrect.

We need to be very careful of this path we are heading along. I am starting to feel very afraid and it's not Covid that I am scared of.

Right, I don't think not having one particular vaccine = anti vaccine

If I refuse the flu vaccine am I anti vax? I'm putting the vulnerable at risk so I must be. I thought anti vax were people who make claims like it causes autism etc. I.e. things proven to be false.

Also not having vaccine doesn't mean against it. If someone doesn't bother to get it booked, but isn't against it in principle, what are they?

No, like a pp said I highly value intelligence.

I don't respect people who have chosen not to be vaccinated. It's their choice, of course, but I don't respect that choice.

My husband won't get it. Not affecting our lives now, but who knows for later.

@TableFlowerss

You should all get as worked up over climate change as that’s going to hit us from every which way in the coming years by the sounds of it.

More chaotic weather, more floods, food shortages due to floods and draughts.

I’ve had both jab but I didn’t want to. I can completely understand why am otherwise healthy 20 year old would refuse it……

My 25 year old extremely healthy brother died of Covid. As did my parents and grandmother. The point of the vaccine is not that you might be ok if you catch it, it’s to help others.

Not with a wilfully unvaccinated person, no.

@thepeopleversuswork Why do you say that anti semites are “far right”?

Generally, all the most virulent anti semites/anti Zionists are on the left.
Have you not heard of Jeremy Corbyn?

And no idea what any of this has to do with refusing the jibby jab.

No. But I don't think an anti-vaxxer would be interested in a relationship with me. I work in the pharmaceutical industry, I have several years of vaccine development experience, and I'm working on a Covid treatment. Having said that it is very important that everyone has bodily autonomy and the right to refuse any medical treatment including vaccines.

Someone who has concerns about the brand new technology of the covid vaccine

what new technology are they using on the covid vaccination that they have never used in other vaccinations?

@millymollymoomoo

Well, there’s a huge difference between being anti vaccine, covid deniers, and those who acknowledge it’s existence and that it can be dangerous to some but still question whether they want a vaccine themselves. So yes I could

It annoys me that anyone who Dares question need fur vaccine or lockdown etc is simply branded as a conspiracy theorist. That’s simply not correct

Yes I agree.

If someone is anti the covid vaccine because they think we're all being microchipped that's a far different thing to someone who is just a bit concerned that it's so new.

No. And that goes for friends too. I have no interest in spending time with people who are wilfully ignorant and/or selfish. Life is (as we have come to realise all to clearly) too fucking short.

I also no longer care if I offend anti-vaxxers either. If all they get as a result of their choice is offended, then they're luckier than they deserve to be.

@Crunchymum This, exactly.

Vaccinated, unvaccinated, blindly believing, questioning. We were all the same 20 months ago, now there are these hateful divides. Like you, I am not scared of covid at all. In fact I recently caught it and it was very very mild. But everything covid has sparked off - I'm with Lionel Shriver, it is very very frightening.

@thepeopleversuswork Also conflating vaccine hesitancy with anti Semitism is disgusting and shameful.

Depends . If they were respectful of my decision. Then yes.

If they tried to get me round to their way of thinking then no.