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I'm not so sure. All of my friends who aren't getting the vaccine and vocal about it are pushing some pretty out there reasons. It may have started from relati
by Spellman 5y ago
I'm not so sure.
All of my friends who aren't getting the vaccine and vocal about it are pushing some pretty out there reasons. It may have started from relatively reasonable reasons, but it has morphed into an especially vitrolic ideology and in-group signaling rather quickly.
Also, a lot of polls show there is a sticky group of people who will never get it and that population hasn't changed much over time. So at this point there's not much you can move the needle on them via facts and all that.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop trying.
Highly recommend the You Are Not So Smart podcast on how to have beneficial discussions with anti-vax individuals. One key is don't use social media (eg in public).
https://youarenotsosmart.com/2021/08/23/yanss-213-how-to-improve-your-chances-of-nudging-the-vaccine-hesitant-away-from-hesitancy-and-toward-vaccination/ https://youarenotsosmart.com/2021/08/23/yanss-213-how-to-imp...
- crazy_horse 5y agoThat's a huge part of this, a lot of the shaming is performative. It's less about the person and more about signaling.
- flaque 5y agoRight, but you don’t break through to someone who’s in an “in-group” by mocking their group. It just creates more in-group / out-group. I’m not saying you should buy their arguments. You need to give people an “out”. If folks approach it as proving that the unvaccinated are “wrong”, then it just makes them dig in their heels.