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If that were the case, wouldn’t we see vaccine skepticism in poorly educated, racist non-Western nations?

• braiamp 1y ago
  You don't see those, because it's on their faces. Or more accurately on our faces. I live in such country, and we kill for having our kids vaccinated. We live these diseases, so we aren't so stupid to fall for misinformation.
• Jensson 1y ago
  You do see a lot of vaccine skepticism in such countries, this study found about half of Africans view vaccines negatively. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9903367/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9903367/
• dotnet00 1y ago
  As the other reply mentions, that's where the "in your face" part comes in. Many of the diseases that can be prevented by vaccines are in living memory for those countries. On top of that, 'poorly educated' in those countries often means never having been to a proper school, never having finished basic schooling, being illiterate, or lacking access to information (be it the internet or social programs). That kind of skepticism is easier to help, because it stems from a place of actual ignorance, rather than believing oneself to be smarter than everyone else.