You Can Only Ask For What You’re Willing to Give
Anti-vaxxers expect respect while showing none.
Anti-vaxxers are learning new tricks.
Now they’re claiming to be “pro-vaccine” and “pro-science.” They’re calling themselves researchers and appropriating terms they don’t understand, for the mere sake of advancing bad-faith arguments about public health. One phrase they throw around is “anecdotal evidence,” which is exactly what you don’t use to draw scientific conclusions. See, anecdotal evidence is pretty much what it sounds like. It’s anecdotal. The subjective experience of a few people doesn’t represent a population.
Just to be crystal clear, getting sick with covid five times and concluding “it’s not that bad” isn’t research.
It’s stupidity.
Let’s make a few other things clear. Being pro-vaccine means you take vaccines that are available to you when you’re eligible, and you encourage others to do the same. Being pro-vaccine means acknowledging that while some people can’t get them because of medical conditions, the vast majority of us can and should be, as a collective effort. It also means acknowledging that while vaccines aren’t perfect, they’re the best tools we have for managing extremely contagious and deadly diseases.
