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vaccines are safer than Covid
If this statement is an absolute, why aren't they vaccinating all groups?
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My point, though, is that the vaccines are safer than Covid. I don’t think that’s remotely controversial except on the most lunatic of fringes.
I'd be interested to know what proportion of people actually believe that Covid is dangerous. I'd hope that it is very low but some of the stuff I've seen on social media recently really makes you think. At very least there is a small but loud minority who believe that Covid is a hoax or no worse than the flu.
It’s not that they’re poorly informed, it’s that they’re selfish.
This is why I think the gov should have put more of an effort into "marketing" the vaccine as for the safety of your friends and family rather than personal safety. I don't think the messaging has been particularly strong beyond simply asking people to have the jabs.
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excellent lets forgo personal choice fort the good of the state. I can see this ending well.
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The “vaccine hesitancy” creeps in when people start making triangulations about their own personal risk balance, ignoring that vaccines aren’t about individual outcomes - they are about the population acting together to defeat a pathogen. About acting collectively to protect the weakest in society.
You're surprised after years of austerity, selling off council housing, hatred towards immigration and generally trampling over the unfortunate that people decide to take the "I'm alright, Jack" line?
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My point, though, is that the vaccines are safer than Covid. I don’t think that’s remotely controversial except on the most lunatic of fringes.
The “vaccine hesitancy” creeps in when people start making triangulations about their own personal risk balance, ignoring that vaccines aren’t just about individual outcomes - they are about the population acting together to defeat a pathogen. About acting collectively to protect the weakest in society. My derision is for those who refuse to accept a degree of personal risk in order to defeat a common threat. It’s not that they’re poorly informed, it’s that they’re selfish.