1. Anti-VAXer is only ad hominem if you feel it’s a derogatory thing to be… Many people who are skeptical of vaccination protocol are proud. They feel that they are seeing something the rest of us are not.

2. except when it poses a public health risk. if after the polio or MMR vaccines were developed, the public did not get on board and achieve a vaccination rate high enough to eradicate the virus, that poses a risk to society. I fully sympathize with a libertarian standpoint, but at some point there are certain rights we all give up to live in close proximity to one another. General philosophical idea is called a “social contract.”

as Rickair stated, at some point a leader has to make a tough call on the risk reward of certain policies. You cannot always err on the side of ultimate freedom, because sometimes the cost to society would be too high. Driving regulations are the best example I can think of. If we are all are going to adopt a technology like that, there have to be limits, so that we are not killing each other (not that 40,000 deaths a year is low, but think of how much higher it could be). My point is that it’s not a black-and-white civil liberties issue. We all accept that there are things we must comply with… Until there is hard evidence against the vaccine, it sure seems like the risks of Covid are significantly higher than the risks of the vaccine.