I mean there is a point to it. While im vaxxed and think everyone should be vaxxed its not unthinkable that people would be suspicious of a corrupt government bought by Big Pharma forcing people to get products made by Big Pharma. Plus the western vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) both use new experimental technologies (mRNA) that had never been used in approved vaccines before, while nonwestern vaccines (Sputnik, Sinovac, the cuban and iranian ones) use classic inactivated virus systems. I dont think its outrageous that someone would distrust this. Plus no matter what you think on this its unacceptable that people are being fired over not being vaccinated. Western governments have been dumping the consequences of the pandemic on the working class, while the bourgeoisie makes billions off it. No communist can support this.

are covid vaccine mandates necessarily good, even? we all talk about china’s success with maintaining very low covid rates and deaths, and even they don’t have mandates. i believe about 80% of their population has been vaccinated.

even though he doesn’t know it, max’s argument is basically “a bourgeois government is doing it, therefore it either won’t be done well or will be done in their interests and not ours.” this is fundamentally true, and i think is the source of much of american postmodern skepticism. how this affects how one should view the policy i’m not sure about really