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I did tell him at first that I didn't mean to accuse him of being generally anti-vaxxers, I do think their was some confusion at that point, but then he went on and did drop an anti-vaxxer talking point "And I don't believe vaccine risks are as low as they say they are."
That's the kind of thing anti-vaxxers say!
Elsewhere he says he will just have a chicken pox party instead of getting the vaccine!
Even if it wasn't intended as anti-vax that's another talking point they use and a terrible idea.
Guy is saying he doesn't want to get vaccines and appears to have some basic misunderstanding of facts and to repeat anti vax talking points...... like what do you want?
All the medical stuff is more complicated than anyone wants to tolerate dealing with (like the discussion about the efficacy of a flu vaccine) but people are resistant to both being told they are incorrect by an expert and to actual doing research to understand the considerations, like what do you want?
It's also the kind of thing people who notice that - like with covid - very strict medical policies that you must follow or else you are killing kids and grandma have caveats that only get mentioned when you ask questions, like 'does the flu vaccine actually prevent you from getting the flu' and 'does the US needs extra vaccines on its schedule because it has a larger underclass than Denmark' say.
What I want is for you to acknowledge that this is a trust issue, and then to stop exacerbating said trust issue. Fundamentally I think doctors are going to have to drop this 'everyone who isn't a doctor is a mouth breathing retard who should shut the fuck up and do what I say' shtick if you are concerned about vaccine skepticism or the US public's faith in doctors, because it's not going to get better with RFK Jr in charge and advances in ai. Dropping a pdf of tables and acronyms written in the inscrutable language of your guild used to cow people into submission, but now that tactic is exposed you can't get trust back by stubbornly maintaining it.
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