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I wondered a lot during Covid how much of the vaccine hesitancy was due to people's squeamishness about needles and how much that was consciously or unconscious
by martythemaniak 3y ago
I wondered a lot during Covid how much of the vaccine hesitancy was due to people's squeamishness about needles and how much that was consciously or unconsciously rationalized with the familiar takings points.
I think if the actual vaccine was a pill or spray, things would have turned out very differently.
- SoftTalker 3y agoI disagree. Everything surrounding COVID became ideology. People refused masks, you think they would accept a spray vaccine?
- tempcovidvax 3y agoSample size 1, but I avoided getting a vaccine for over a year, and I only got it when extensive measures were taken to combat my anxiety about the needle. For sure, I would have been in line to get it day 1 if it had been a nasal spray or other method.
- hgsgm 3y agoWe can't turn back the clock, but if w never had Wakefield, and never had needles, am maybe antivax would never have achieved critical mass.
- PeterStuer 3y agoI think reservations were not at all about the needle (except perhaps for the strange guidance about not aspirating to check for potential blood vessel puncture without explanation).
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- culopatin 3y agoMine was 90/30 needles/side effects (fever, pain, etc)
- Tagbert 3y agoMy husband, who is not a fan of needles, complained that in television coverage of covid vaccinations, the news coverage always showed closeup images of dripping needles while telling people to get vaccinated. He felt that would turn off people like him who try to avoid needles.