Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“The epithet ‘anti-vaxxer’ is common in our time for anyone who resists mandates or resents the enormous legal privileges, protections, patents, and subsidies the industry receives today. It also pertains to those who attempt to bring attention to vaccine injury and death, a sensitive and even suppressed subject for an industry that relies on a utilitarian measure to demonstrate its social value. The label does not always or often make sense. The dominant theme of the movement now – and this has always been true – is to reject intervention and instead regard this industry as any other in a free marketplace (hamburgers, bottled water, washing machines, etc.), neither subsidized, nor mandated, nor protected from liability from imposed harms. If that goal were achieved, the ‘anti-vaxx’ movement would shrink dramatically.” (04/07/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-story-of-the-victorian-era-anti-mandate-movement/