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MIT Study: Vaccine Hesitancy Is 'Highly Informed, Scientifically Literate,' and 'Sophisticated'
PJ Media ^ | 07/17/2021 | Rick Moran

Posted on 07/19/2021 3:41:41 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Vaccine hesitancy is a big problem, according to the Biden administration. Less than half the public is fully vaccinated while about 56 percent have received at least one jab.

The goal of fully vaccinating the American public appears to have stalled. This should not surprise us. When the vaccines were first approved for emergency use back in December 2020, 40 percent of Americans expressed skepticism about the vaccine.

Trying to shame the holdouts has failed spectacularly. Insulting and degrading them as “morons” or “ignorant” has resulted in a vicious pushback and a hardening of positions on getting vaccinated.

The administration’s plan of sending people door to door to vaccinate them only feeds anti-vaccine skepticism. Trust in authority is at an all-time low, which makes a government-sponsored vaccine program suspect.

Still, most experts agree that some people who should be getting vaccinated aren’t doing so. But the root cause isn’t ignorance or a belief in conspiracy theories. An MIT study on the problem revealed some surprising results…

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...


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To: T.B. Yoits

Blood clotting, seizures, and enlarged hearts are NOT a sign that it’s working.

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Then again, maybe that’s what the vaccines are intended to do and it’s working as designed. Why else would every government on the planet (except 3) give pharmaceutical companies complete immunity to distribute an experimental drug not properly tested or FDA approved for a disease with a 99.98% survival rate?


21 posted on 07/19/2021 4:20:50 PM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

22 posted on 07/19/2021 4:28:05 PM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: G Larry
Multi-dittos.

FMCDH(BITS)

23 posted on 07/19/2021 4:28:53 PM PDT by nothingnew
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To: Qui is

Which three countries did not give the companies complete immunity?


24 posted on 07/19/2021 4:34:46 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

What are the long term effects of the genetic engineering jab?


25 posted on 07/19/2021 4:40:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Critical Race Theory: black behavior is so bad it must be whitey's fault.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

The sourced article on the MIT study is surprisingly fair: https://news.mit.edu/2021/when-more-covid-data-doesnt-equal-more-understanding-0304


26 posted on 07/19/2021 4:42:05 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Uncle Miltie

For a while the Moderna was setting off the theft alarm at Walmart and I’d have to outrun the chubby mask sheriff at the doorway on the way out. But it only lasted a couple weeks.


27 posted on 07/19/2021 4:42:25 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: G Larry

If you get covid make sure your doctor prescribes the early treatment drugs. I cannot remember what they were but I think one was a steroid. There were about three or four drugs in the prescription.


28 posted on 07/19/2021 4:44:53 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Joseph Stolen cannot figure out what the problem is.


29 posted on 07/19/2021 4:44:56 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: Scrambler Bob
A .22 is reasonably effective against bear attacks.

Handgun or Pistol Against Bear Attacks 104 cases, 97% Effective

30 posted on 07/19/2021 4:46:47 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: G Larry
“Why are people who have had 2 doses of the “vaccine” still getting Covid?”

Good point. Why won;t the CDC gather data and report on breakthrough cases by vaccine manufacturer? We might learn something?

31 posted on 07/19/2021 4:46:58 PM PDT by GOWM (grumpy old white man)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

bmk


32 posted on 07/19/2021 4:50:14 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Persevero

Haiti, Tanzania and Zambia. And all three of their leaders are now dead.


33 posted on 07/19/2021 4:50:28 PM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: T.B. Yoits

I’ve attended two funerals for people who died of COVID and two who died from the vaccine. The former were in their 50’s - 60’s The latter were in their 20’s.

I’ve also spent two nights in an ER where at least half the emergencies were people having serious reactions to the mRNA shots.


34 posted on 07/19/2021 5:00:17 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: airborne

You can’t trust the science when they lie and misrepresent the numbers.


35 posted on 07/19/2021 5:01:00 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: The Louiswu

“I’m not totally antivax I just want to go last. Is that so bad?”
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Not at all. And it wouldn’t be bad if, considering your own circumstances and beliefs, you decide to NEVER get vaccinated. It should ALL be personal choice.


36 posted on 07/19/2021 5:01:57 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: The Louiswu

I am completely anti-vax and do not want to be a lab rat.


37 posted on 07/19/2021 5:02:25 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: SaxxonWoods; dynoman; metmom

“That’s happening here on FR!”

Yes, Frustrated by their inability to change minds the vaccine pushers mostly smirk at each other now with gratuitous insults targeting “anti-vaxxers”.

Their utter failure is most amusing.


Yes....they’ve reduced themselves to a pathetic new low.


38 posted on 07/19/2021 5:05:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: packagingguy

I have them all.


39 posted on 07/19/2021 5:07:18 PM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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To: packagingguy

I have them all.


40 posted on 07/19/2021 5:07:18 PM PDT by G Larry (Force the Universities to use their TAX FREE ENDOWMENTS to pay off Student loan debt!!!)
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