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Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action
- raxxorrax 6y agoI think it should be considered that these positions aren't just against vaccines and can be a phenomenon of general uncooperative behavior sourced in lack of trust and spitefulness. Depending on the answer to this question a call to action can be constructive or not. Imagine the topic becoming a partisan issue... Especially if the latter is the more likely scenario and the pandemic is used to introduce politically opportunistic measures the resistance would increase noticeably. I think the the reason is that scientific explanations don't seem to work is that the topic isn't the viability of vaccination. The article suggest that people should be converted by a targeted information campaign, or manipulation how detractors will call it. I believe that would fail and not improve the situation. If you demand trust for something, you need to be ready to give some as well. Some smart politicians were better at this. They plainly made sure people had a choice by excluding mandatory vaccination. And with a choice quotas above 95% were already reached and even very common. I agree that plain scientific info isn't enough, but I don't think the strategy will work.