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Anti-vaxxers are people who find for some reason that vaccines are bad or somewhat bad and should be avoided and then desperately constructs articles like this to mislead other people and convince them to accept their beliefs.

I touched this topic only because the author tries to convince us that he is not one.

Why is it important? Because their beliefs distract them to view this issue objectively.

For example if two doses of vaccine do not work against new variant, they conclude that vaccines are bad and should be abandoned instead of asking and testing if three doses might work.

I am seeing the same again with omicron. Vaccines do not work, should be abandoned. I am seeing that they still work fairly well, at least against serious illness that requires hospitalization and actually after boosting also against infection but just the virus is everywhere and changes to get it are enormous and this makes it hard to avoid even when vaccinated by three doses (efficacy is around 60% with 3 doses that is about the same as was 2 doses with delta but delta was just much much slower virus (even though I thought that it was fast back then)).

Maybe this doctor really is not one but people who are, are going to use this opinion piece to confuse other people and gain support against vaccination even when it really is the best option that they got at the moment.

This is why I find this aspect also important.

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