Posted on 12/06/2021 4:48:38 PM PST by BusterDog
The world over, people feel lied to, unheard, and pushed aside. They no longer have any faith in their leaders. They’re lashing out against their governments and health officials, in some cases by rejecting the COVID-19 vaccine.
Populism, a political expression of this mistrust, is correlated with vaccine hesitancy. In a 2019 study, Jonathan Kennedy, a sociologist at Queen Mary University of London, found a significant association between the percentage of people who voted for populist parties within a country and the percent who believe vaccines are not important or effective. Past research has similarly found that populists around the world are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories about issues such as vaccination and global warming. “Vaccine hesitancy and political populism are driven by similar dynamics: a profound distrust in elites and experts,” Kennedy writes. In politics, populism manifests as supporting parties and figures outside the mainstream, like Donald Trump or UKIP. But populism can be expressed differently in other spheres. “In public health, there’s this growing distrust and anger towards doctors, also towards pharmaceutical companies. Medical populism is skepticism that's uninformed,” Kennedy told me.
Medical literature reveals a strong connection between vaccine hesitancy and distrust of pharmaceutical companies, government officials, and health-care workers, even among health-care workers themselves. Studies and polls from various countries over the past two years show that people who are reluctant to get a COVID-19 vaccine are more likely to vote for politically extreme parties and to distrust the government, and to cite their distrust as a reason for not getting the shot. In a recent German poll, half of the unvaccinated respondents had voted for the far-right populist party, Alternative für Deutschland, in the recent election.
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and what about the other half you morons?
“lashing out”
It’s been around since 1796 with the smallpox vaccine, they thought it would turn people into half-cows and other nonsense or was against God. Got worse in the 1800’s when governments mandated it, they had riots and hung people etc. but it also got rid of smallpox. Also Nazis used antivaccine rhetoric because it hits people’s emotions and superstitions
Basically there is nothing new under the sun
Good catch!
Why is it an add for a drug has to have all the applicable adverse affects listed but a PSA doesn’t? What’s the difference between an add pushing a drug and a PSA?
Everyone knows that once you contract and recover from a virus, you have not only immunity (17 years was reported) but the immunity is wide variant effective unlike the single strain “vaccine”.
EVERYONE KNOWS
Even “hesitancy” is a lie.
We reject the genetic engineering outright and forever.
Distrust? You mean like wondering why it takes 55 years for the FDA to release studies on the jabs, and somehow this fact will NOT lead to distrust by the general population?
THIS JUST IN: study shows that people who are lied to by their leaders eventually come to distrust those same leaders. News at 11….
I learned in school to not bend to peer pressure to take drugs I know nothing about. That’s what !
Behavior.
No one goes this batshit crazy if someone doesn’t want a flu shot.
The severity of the disease doesn’t justify the insane responses we are seeing.
A lot of people refuse to get injected with a poison.
Like most of the people lecturing the public on taking this vaccine, the author of the article has no medical or biological science degree.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-khazan-5066537
I like that better than Lennon’s lyrics.
It is a fast death jab for some and a slow death jab for others.
I thought it was only evil Trump worshipping hicks that don’t want these vaccines?
Vaccine hesitancy? That's a fantasy, like I might be convinced later. No. Vaccine rejection. Hard pass. Hard pass. Any attempt to physically force a vax on me will be treated as a life-threatening assault.
You’re being sarcastic but are exactly correct. Nazis were nationalists against globalization and socialism, used extremely similar conspiracy theories, made boogeymen out of “elitist liberals and Jews”, were against government funded medical care and vaccines etc
It’s funny and shocking how similar it is today
Either you trust the government or you know history.
You can’t do both.
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