I understand that some people are skeptical about bourgeois governments policies of mandatory vaccines, but thinking that every decision from up top is unreasonable is a terrible metaphysical take. Mandatory vaccines has been in effect in China, Laos, DPRK, Cuba and Vietnam. That alone should realize on what side these anti-vaxxers are in.

Some sectors of the bourgeoisie also would benefit from a vaccinated population because it would slow the labor shortages of their shitty economy, which means some bourgeois sectors are actually wanting the people to be fully able to work without interruption through vaccination.

I say some sectors because there are obviously other sectors which has benefited a lot from the spread of the pandemic, and therefore wouldn’t think twice of promoting the astroturfing of vaccine and COVID denial. Such is the case of digital retailers (Amazon), pornographic empires (MindGeek), bourgeois social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), video sharing websites (mainly YouTube), streaming services (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO Max), etc.

Contrary to what the anti-vaxxers usually say about “Big Pharma promoting vaccines”, the most profitable companies actually benefit with the pandemic, as we have seen the ten richest billionaires double their profits since the pandemic. What they’re advocating, whether they are aware or not, benefits highly the bourgeoisie.

But of course “Big Pharma” profits from selling vaccines privately or through government deals, we live in a commodity-producing society, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. To eat something as essential as food, we need to buy it, which gives profits to supermarket chains and the food industry in general. To live and exist in a capitalist society, you need to inevitably consume and buy products. No one in their sane mind would tell you to boycott buying food to not promote “Big Food” or something. The same goes for vaccines, which has demonstrably proven that they are effective by the decrease in death rates, although they couldn’t prevent contagion efficiently, which in fact benefits the big pharmaceutical industries indeed since boosters and more vaccines would be needed. But this doesn’t mean that mandatory vaccines aren’t necessary to mitigate the large-scale deaths we’ve seen in 2020 and beginning of 2021.

In short,

Fight for mandatory vaccinations, fight petty-bourgeois vacillations

_{(this was originally taken from a comment in response to a radioactive take from comrade @pimento@lemmygrad.ml)}