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I'll answer this first :
From where I'm sitting you have done a perfectly adequate job of encouraging the "anti-vaxxers" for the last few months. I'll explain below.
Tell me. In your experience as a doctor, does the general public understand medical terms well? I'm going to go with a negative.
Now, please tell me to the best of your imagination what ah seng thinks a vaccine is. I'm willing to bet that it differs quite significantly from the description you provided above that I quoted.
Now try and extrapolate ah seng's perception with what you're propounding. Will it then encourage said person to believe you more or less?
Please feel free to correct any assumptions I've made in my reply.
I'm not obsessing over semantics. I personally hate that more than anyone else I know. I'm pointing out the discrepancies between your beliefs and what the anti-vaxxers believe and why the medical establishment is running into resistance as a whole.
The issue is deeper than I can be bothered to write about now, but if you don't care to acknowledge the gulf in between the assumptions you made based on your experiences and in those opposing you, you're only going to entrench "anti-vaxxer" beliefs against you.
Now, I know you're a doctor and if you're an anaesthetist as @nayr69sg presumes you to be I'm not going to bother going on because you're not going to be 1st contact point interfacing with patients.
For the record, I've had my BNT162b2 already because it is the most logical course of action. But I'm dead against vaccine ID and I don't care to be bullied into vaccinating by governments. But according to a whole bunch of people, I'm an anti-vaxxer.
Anaesthesists are not 1st contact point with patients ? How so ?