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There’s also just plain distrust of government and media pushing something. Our trust in government and media is so low that when they say do something, most ra

There’s also just plain distrust of government and media pushing something. Our trust in government and media is so low that when they say do something, most rational people are immediately suspicious.

kcplate 5y ago
Exactly this. There is an unbelievable irony in the fact that the current administration is on a intense PR push to get unvaccinated Americans to trust the vaccines and get vaccinated when they specifically communicated during their (Biden and Harris) campaigns last year their distrust regarding the vaccine due to its association with Trump, speed of development, and experimental nature. This is what happens when people check in their common sense for political allegiances. I have no doubt that if Trump had won, we would still be having this issue of the distrustful unvaccinated, but their politics would be more on the democrats side.
- nradov 5y ago
  In 2020 California and several other states said that they would conduct independent safety reviews of the vaccines because they didn't trust the Trump administration. When state government officials make irresponsible statements like that it's not surprising that some people are hesitant. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-californias-scientific-safety-review-workgroup-to-ensure-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine/ https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-califo...
  - hvac 5y ago
    With three out of those four states having vaccination rates that are now above average, how can you be sure that an independent safety review didn't have the opposite effect?
    - kcplate 5y ago
      At this point it’s impossible to say what the effect would have been. The states that have the above average rates are all very blue and that tracks with the current political winds of the democrats regarding vaccines. The political opinion on vaccines immediately shifted 180 degrees on Biden’s win, because there there was no need to resist Trump and vaccine hesitancy was a tactic being employed by the resisters. Independent review may have convinced some who were hesitant but I suspect they would have been the folks independently hesitant as opposed to the “politically hesitant”. The politically hesitant would hold out until their trusted party authorities blessed the vaccines.

kcplate 5y ago

Exactly this. There is an unbelievable irony in the fact that the current administration is on a intense PR push to get unvaccinated Americans to trust the vaccines and get vaccinated when they specifically communicated during their (Biden and Harris) campaigns last year their distrust regarding the vaccine due to its association with Trump, speed of development, and experimental nature. This is what happens when people check in their common sense for political allegiances. I have no doubt that if Trump had won, we would still be having this issue of the distrustful unvaccinated, but their politics would be more on the democrats side.

nradov 5y ago
In 2020 California and several other states said that they would conduct independent safety reviews of the vaccines because they didn't trust the Trump administration. When state government officials make irresponsible statements like that it's not surprising that some people are hesitant. https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-californias-scientific-safety-review-workgroup-to-ensure-safety-of-covid-19-vaccine/ https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/10/27/western-states-join-califo...
- hvac 5y ago
  With three out of those four states having vaccination rates that are now above average, how can you be sure that an independent safety review didn't have the opposite effect?
  - kcplate 5y ago
    At this point it’s impossible to say what the effect would have been. The states that have the above average rates are all very blue and that tracks with the current political winds of the democrats regarding vaccines. The political opinion on vaccines immediately shifted 180 degrees on Biden’s win, because there there was no need to resist Trump and vaccine hesitancy was a tactic being employed by the resisters. Independent review may have convinced some who were hesitant but I suspect they would have been the folks independently hesitant as opposed to the “politically hesitant”. The politically hesitant would hold out until their trusted party authorities blessed the vaccines.