I feel like this discussion needs some distinctions. The COVID vaccine doesn't work like the Small Pox or Polio vaccines. I got the J&J COVID shot and I actually caught COVID. My kids did not get the shot and all caught COVID. I don't plan on giving my kids the COVID shot. If they want to get it when they are 18, that is their choice. For me, there is enough of a connection with the heart issues in young males to make it not worth the risk for them. I gladly and wholeheartedly went ahead with them getting their MMR and Polio, Tetanus.
In my mind, though different types of vaccine tech, the COVID shots are like the flu shot. Something they have to guess on and it may give you some protection against the virus. The
Eris variant of COVID is aptly named. "It is more contagious!" we are told. Yeah, the common cold is really contagious too. Is it more lethal?
So am I anti-vax? I don't think I am. I think a bunch of other people that get slapped with that label are more aptly named, anti-COVID vax, but making that distinction weakens the ability to label them as idiots.