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In America, we see vaccine hesitancy is highest among marginalized groups. Insular religious sects/cults, black Americans with little education, the white rura
by retrac 5y ago
In America, we see vaccine hesitancy is highest among marginalized groups. Insular religious sects/cults, black Americans with little education, the white rural South. Some of these people will double down when mandated to get vaccinated. Some are in positions where vaccination would be social death to them (which is usually a bigger motivator than real death in humans).
It's unavoidable most of the impact of such policies will fall on some of society's more marginalized groups. A woman whose husband won't allow her to be vaccinated now loses her part-time job and social contacts. Some kid whose parents won't allow them to be vaccinated in a religious sect now loses contact with some of the few non-brainwashy social outlets they had. The job losses for non-vaccination will disproportionately affect the poor, uneducated, and racial minorities.
Maybe this is a necessary cost. But I hope people have really thought it through.
- AndrewBissell 5y agoYour perception that vaccine hesitancy is limited to insular and uneducated groups of people is off the mark. 25% of eligible Americans still haven't taken the vaccine despite months of unending propaganda across all forms of media, intense social pressure, and even threats of job loss.
- pbaka 5y agoThere was a study at Carnegie Mellon University with 500K respondents which would seem to corroborate what you write. The most hesitant in the US were the least educated (basic formal education) and the most educated (PhD's). Journalistic summary : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893465/Americans-PhDs-reluctant-vaccinated-against-COVID-study-finds.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9893465/Americans-P... The original publication : https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/covid-hesitancy.html https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
- retrac 5y agoI have a similar hard time intuitively believing 30% of rural Albertans refuse to be vaccinated when 92% have been here in Toronto. But there are pockets where people aren't getting the same media diet and uniform messaging you or I were. Like tends to cluster with like.