Does opposing vaccine mandates make you antivax?

[AGA]

?

[Big Abraham]

Obviously not, given the plain and parsimonious definition of the word.

[dead0man]

clearly no

[Mr. Reactionary]

No, just pro-choice.

[Schiff for Senate]

Not necessarily, though I'd guess that a majority of opponents of vaccine mandates are also antivax, and that 99% of antivaxxers are also anti-mandate. Being antivax is more a result of not being vaccinated yourself and/or promoting conspiracy theories about the vaccine. Those who are vaccinated and don't support vaccine conspiracy theories but oppose a mandate are not antivax. Having said that I myself support vaccine mandates and am doubly vaccinated, and oppose those who oppose vaccine mandates in most cases.

[Santander]

We don't "oppose" anything. We just happen to still care about freedom.

It's the other side that not only opposes freedom, but actually opposes us as people.

[progressive85]

I am not anti-vaccine but I oppose a mandate.  I am against the State requiring people to take things into their own bodies they don't want to.  It is simply not right - no government should ever have that much power.

[Calthrina950]

No, it doesn't. Many of those who oppose vaccine mandates are themselves vaccinated.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Nope.  Vaxxed and boosted and oppose mandates.

[Ferguson97]

No, but it's still a dumb opinion to hold.

[fhtagn]

Recevied both vaccine doses and recently(ish) boosted due to my job, but I don't support mandates.

[Hammy]

It depends on the reasoning as there's overlap, but opposing mandates in itself doesn't make you anti-vax, just foolish.

[Pericles]

It's such a silly binary anyway to just oppose or support mandates. In some places mandates are a lot more justifiable than others, and then there's a question of how far the mandates go, who is actually imposing the mandates, and maybe now with Omicron what level of dosage exactly is being mandated.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

clearly no

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Nope. Not getting the covid shot due to moral convictions.

[Middle-aged Europe]

No.

But it's interesting that a lot of "pro-vaccination, but anti-mandate" people I know seem to support denying medical treatment to unvaxxed people in case hospitals are overwhelmed as an alternative to it. That's kind of a "if they want their freedom and be left out of the fight against the pandemic then they should be left out of it entirely" point of view.

[PSOL]

No

[Meclazine for Israel]

No,

Because it depends on the mandates which very a lot between countries.

Some mandates are simply not going to work.

For example, opposing some idiotic public policy on mask wearing only in movie theatres and coffee shops does not logically have anything to do with vaccination.