anti-vaxxers

Yuval Noah Harariの "Nexus" を読み始めました。副題は 'A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI' となっています。Harariの著作を読むのはこれで4冊目ですが、氏の作品はどれも大作で、 "Nexus" もNoteなどを入れると5百ページ近くあります。

今日取り上げるのはページ番号がローマ数字で示されているプロローグの中にに出てきた単語です。

Populist leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and populist movements and conspiracy theories such as QAnon and the anti-vaxxers, have argued that all traditional institutions that gain authority by claiming to gather information and discover truth are simply lying.

"anti-vaxxers" の "vaxxer" とはどんな人でしょう。 "vaxxer" より "anti-vaxxers" を取り上げている辞書が多くあったので、"anti-vaxxers" の説明を取り上げます。

・Merriam-Webster: a person who opposes the use of some or all vaccines, regulations mandating vaccination, or usually both: Anti-vaxxers, those who refuse to vaccinate, have been around for as long as vaccination.
・Wiktionary: A person who opposes vaccination, as for its purported dangerous effects.: Like everyone else (other than anti-vaxxers, I guess), I was delighted to see the good news about the Pfizer vaccine hopefully being rolled out before Christmas.
・Word Spy: A person who does not vaccinate their children in the belief that vaccines are harmful.: I do know that from talking with a few ladies at church they are wary of vaxes. Only a couple other anti vaxers.

"vax" は "vaccine" の事だったのですね。