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Originally Posted by issybird
Again, the option in the poll was merely meant to be descriptive and not proscriptive,
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Which is why I said "misleading" and not "a lie".
Regardless of not being a reputable source, the more people repeat dangerous nonsense, the more other people start to believe it. Antivaxxer nonsense from non-reputable sources has had an enormous, cumulative influence on population beliefs.
It's not even balanced with an "My immune system is compromised so I will get the vaccine as soon as I possibly can" option - it's just there by itself implying that immunocompromise is a reason to avoid a COVID shot.
I'd have no issue if, for example, it said "I have an anaphylactic allergy to an ingredient in the vaccine, so I'm not getting one". That's a far more sensible option, yet it's not there either.
And zero people have said yes to it, so why not remove it?