I decided to incur the personal cost of not getting vaccinated as a sign of protest.
If you think vaccination is a good idea but forcing people to prove vaccination status is bad, wouldn’t it make more sense to get vaccinated but to refuse to provide proof to gatekeepers? I’d worry that being unvaccinated sends the wrong signal, that you’re anti-vaccine and not anti-vaccine-mandate.
That’s an interesting approach. My thinking at the time was that the number of vaccines administered gives legitimacy to the government’s decisions. There were several other factors I considered besides the mandate:
All this happened while the vaccine was still in experimental stage in France.
There was political motivation to use all the vaccines already ordered. As far as I’m aware, the frequency of boosting was not justified by any science.
The benefits of the vaccines were exaggerated in public discourse (“you’ll never get sick”, “the virus will disappear”, etc.). The priority was never honest communication but manipulating people.
There was an attempt to ridicule any opposition to the vaccine mandate as being motivated by woo-woo.
Just to be clear, I still wasn’t sure I was making the right choice at the time and I would have gotten vaccinated if there was no mandate.
If you think vaccination is a good idea but forcing people to prove vaccination status is bad, wouldn’t it make more sense to get vaccinated but to refuse to provide proof to gatekeepers? I’d worry that being unvaccinated sends the wrong signal, that you’re anti-vaccine and not anti-vaccine-mandate.
That’s an interesting approach. My thinking at the time was that the number of vaccines administered gives legitimacy to the government’s decisions. There were several other factors I considered besides the mandate:
All this happened while the vaccine was still in experimental stage in France.
There was political motivation to use all the vaccines already ordered. As far as I’m aware, the frequency of boosting was not justified by any science.
The benefits of the vaccines were exaggerated in public discourse (“you’ll never get sick”, “the virus will disappear”, etc.). The priority was never honest communication but manipulating people.
There was an attempt to ridicule any opposition to the vaccine mandate as being motivated by woo-woo.
Just to be clear, I still wasn’t sure I was making the right choice at the time and I would have gotten vaccinated if there was no mandate.