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Originally Posted by MuseChaser
Agreed with all, except with a clarification/stipulation on the last sentence. The jump from labeling those who are anti-mandate to being anti-vaccine is made far too easily and far too frequently. There are people who are illogically opposed to the vaccine itself, granted, but, and again I'm speaking from my personal experience and not for every pocket of humanity across the fruited plain, the most vocal in my experience have been anti-mandate, including myself, and not anti-vaccine. Many of those opposing the mandates, and again speaking from my experience, are vaccinated.
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Mandates (and laws) only happen when individual's choices are having a significant negative impact on society. Nobody is actually pro-mandate, it's just that the other option, educating people on the needs and benefits of getting vaccinated, seems to have failed to generate the necessary effect for a large portion of the population (those who are anti-vaccine). Mandates are just a fallback when society can't seem to find another option.