and, listen - the more you try to convince me to get vaccinated, the more likely i am to avoid doing it.

i don't have a religious reason. i don't have a health concern. i'm not afraid of the vaccine and, while i don't think it's going to be effective in the long run, i'm sure the probabilities being published are vaguely accurate. 

i don't think vaccines cause autism.

so, you can throw this list of things at me, and i'm just going to deny every one of them.

rather, i'm just making a principled point about self-autonomy - if you're going to try to force me to get vaccinated, i will resist simply because you're trying to tell me what to do.

so, fuck off.

that, and i don't think it's appropriate to mandate vaccination for a mild flu-like illness - i think that's an abuse of power, and i think it needs to be called out for what it is, and resisted on that basis alone.

this is not a game of chicken, either - the government needs to pick it's battles, here. 'cause i'm perfectly happy to cost it a lot of money and waste a lot of it's time, if it insists on being retarded.