"Why some people don't want a Covid-19 vaccine" -- a world view.

[GPV]

The 5Cs

First, some distinctions. While it is tempting to assume that anyone who refuses a vaccine holds the same beliefs, the fears of most vaccine hesitant people should not be confused with the bizarre theories of staunch anti-vaxxers. "They're very vocal, and they have a strong presence offline and online," says Mohammad Razai at the Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, who has written about the various psychological and social factors that can influence people's decision-making around vaccines. "But they’re a very small minority."

The vast majority of vaccine-hesitant people do not have a political agenda and are not committed to an anti-scientific cause: they are simply undecided about their choice to take the injection.

The good news is that many people who were initially hesitant are changing their mind. "But even a delay is considered a threat to health because viral infections spread very quickly," says Razai. This would have been problematic if we were still dealing with the older variants of the virus, but the higher transmissibility of the new Delta variant has increased the urgency of reaching as many people as quickly as possible.

More: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210720-the-complexities-of-vaccine-hesitancy

[genxlib]

1. Not buying it

Everyone I know who isn’t getting it is conservative.

While they say it isn’t political, Of course it is.

While their particular thoughts on the vaccine might not seem political to them, their entire world view is. They are simmering in an environment of social media and news that has colored their entire perception of reality. They think they are making an independent assessment of the vaccine outside of political influence but that just isn’t the case.

It isn’t that way for all of the hold outs but I know far too many that are being subconsciously influenced to simply accept them as people with legitimate concerns

[GPV]

2. This article isn't just about the US, so political leanings might be different in different

parts of the world away from where you are.

That said, small as the anti-Vaxxer and political groups are, they certainly seem to be the loudest.

[femmedem]

9. I know a woman active in the local NAACP who is vaccine-hesitant. Not conservative at all.

Her hesitancy stems from a distrust of government. I believe she is in her 70s. I worry about her and hope that someone close to her can sway her.

[albacore]

3. Yo Mama posted this earlier...

Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson Says State's Conservative Leanings Account for Low Vaccination Rate
And their low level of intelligence

Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson said the state's conservative leanings account for lower COVID-19 vaccination rates, and that it's "disappointing" that politics play a role in whether or not people get inoculated.

During an interview on the show Full Court Press With Greta Van Susteren slated to broadcast on Sunday,Hutchinson said that Arkansas's conservative viewpoints can explain the state's low vaccination rates.

"Why is our vaccination rate lower? We're a very rural state. We have a lot of resistance. It's a conservative state. Sometimes conservatives are hesitant about the government, and we've just got to counteract that by getting better information to them, building confidence," Hutchinson said during the interview.

"I've learned that it's not what the government tells you, it's what your trusted advisor, your medical doctor, or somebody that you trust tells you. And that's the best persuasive technique we can use to change those attitudes," he added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arkansas-gov-hutchinson-says-states-conservative-leanings-account-for-low-vaccination-rate/ar-AAMx6OS

[GPV]

4. Disinformation plays a huge role in this.

[Azathoth]

8. It's not "the government". They love the government when it's Republican

And they particularly love the government when it's putting cameras in people's bedrooms and bathrooms and schools.

They're still trying to rationalize this away as some kind of principled libertarian distrust of govenment. But that's just a euphemism for "we hate government that includes people who aren't us and that tells us we have to do things we don't wanna do." This is still the Confederacy, just wrapped in euphemisms.

[Azathoth]

5. Things might be different overseas, but in the US it's explicitly political

These people are prepared to kill themselves and their families to own the libs.

The existing anti-vax movement hasn't changed in size or character. What's changed is that there are suddenly 10 times as many people -- all Trump conservatives -- who suddenly started regurgitatiing anti-vax nonsense the day Trump lost the election.

[GPV]

6. Yes, it's a huge bullhorn here

[thucythucy]

7. Don't know about the rest of the world

but in the context of US politics this reminds me of all the drivel about how Trump voters were mostly motivated by "economic anxiety."

I'm not buying it, at least not in regards to the US.

[Blues Heron]

10. a lot of "new agers" don't want to put it in their body

they're not really conservative, but they do mistrust "western medicine"

But they have no problem swilling colloidial silver or sketchy kava kava extracts etc.

[Scrivener7]

11. Despite what the writers say, every one of those "C" reasons has its basis in political

assholery.

So let's not fall down the same rabbit hole we always fall down and try to "understand" and "create a dialogue" with people who are simply too dumb to reason. These "C"s all describe a person who, with the information they sought out from right wing sources, came to the conclusion that it was not worth it for them to get the vaccine.

Because the don't think the virus can kill them, or because it is just too inconvenient for them to get it and that outweighs their perceived risk of getting the virus.

It is moot anyway. Delta is going to find them. In a few months, they will be immune or dead.

I feel for their children and their relations who are elderly or who, for legitimate medical reasons, could not get the vaccine.

[tanyev]

12. If you don't want a vaccine and you are diligently masking and social distancing, that's one thing.

If you don't want a vaccine and are out there with no mask on shopping and eating in restaurants and going to crowded events, that's another thing entirely.

[Bristlecone]

13. Bullshit