Are Londoners who refused to blackout their homes during WW2 comparable to anti-vaxxers?

[Ferguson97]

Are people who might have refused to black out their homes because “it’s my home, my choice” comparable to anti-vaxxers who refuse to get vaccinated because “it’s their choice”?

[TheReckoning]

I’d say so. I understand that a medical decision is a bit more important than the decision to turn off lights, but given how safe the vaccines are, and how COVID and the Nazis were both large threats, it’s definitely a comparison.

Also, the “my body, my choice” line coming from anti-vaxxers is supposed to be pointing out the hypocrisy of people who are pro choice when it comes to killing a 38 week old fetus, but not with vaccines.

[Clarence Boddicker]

Self-absorbed and stupid? Yep.

[Del Tachi]

No, but only because the threat to life and property posed by the blitz is much more immediate than that brought on by a respiratory pandemic.

Even though the bombing threat was more immediate, it was at least time-limited and specific.  The COVID panickers are going to be demanding everyone receive mandatory booster shots for the rest of their lives, whereas the worst the Nazis could do is kill you in a single night.  

[Schiff for Senate]

Yes, though I'd say the former are still somewhat worse than the latter.