Rebuttal to Palacios' Vaccine Stance
I sincerely appreciate Healdsburg City Council member Skylar Palacios making a thoughtful, detailed statement about why she has chosen not to take the Covid vaccine. Unfortunately, Palacios' statement will do a great job of corralling support from all the wrong people, and bolstering their cause. Among the anti-vaxers, we find anti-science zealots, the misinformed, the paranoid, the outright selfish and fundamentalists of every stripe (Christian, New Age, Islamic and so on). By and large, these people don't believe their vaccine decision will affect other people. Their runaway suspicions of our medical and journalistic institutions compromise their arguments from the onset. I do not see them as the principled, cautious and discerning folks that Palacios makes them out to be in her statement. Good luck finding level-headed and rational thinkers among them who are forwarding a data-driven argument. The politicians who oppose vaccine and masking mandates are among the most ide