Posted on 11/30/2021 2:52:10 PM PST by ConservativeMind
White evangelical Christians have resisted getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than other religious groups in the United States. A new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that persuading these vaccine holdouts to get their shots has only gotten more difficult.
"At this point, unvaccinated white evangelicals seem resistant to messaging aimed at persuading them of the benefits of being vaccinated against COVID-19," said Gregory A. Huber, the Forst Family Professor of Political Science in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a co-author of the study. "It's not clear whether this is because resistance to vaccination among white evangelicals has increased over time or that the current holdouts were always the least persuadable. What is clear is that messaging that was effective last fall, before vaccines were approved, now seems ineffective."
The initial survey, fielded on a nationally representative sample of 855 white evangelicals, gauged how various messages affected white evangelicals' intentions to get vaccinated, their willingness to advise a friend to get the shots, and their judgments of people who refuse the vaccine. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of seven conditions: A placebo message unrelated to COVID-19, a baseline message about vaccine efficacy, or five treatment messages that added specific content to that baseline.
…Neither survey showed that values-based messaging was successful at persuading white evangelicals to get vaccinated, contrasting with prior research that has found that values-consistent messaging increased positive attitudes towards masking among members of the same group.
"This study highlights the importance of testing and re-testing messages as the people requiring persuasion changes over time," said Scott E. Bokemper.
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‘Give an honest but ignorant man the truth and he will either ceases to be ignorant or cease to be honest.’
I don’t have a problem with people getting the vaccine. I encourage it for persons with multiple comorbidities who won’t take the preventative and treatment steps needed.
My mother and many others near to me have gotten the vaccine, but, as with you, it was most often due to “practical” considerations, rather than mind-numbing media messages and similar manipulations, like this study tried.
I would never speculate—but these vaxxes have a real nasty habit of causing coincidences.
I really don’t like coincidences. :-)
I am hardly evangelical. And I don’t think the African American community that is largely rejecting this is white either
Lies lies and more lies
It’s hysterical. So… White evangelical Christians aren’t getting the message. Well, the message I keep getting is fauxinate or you’re going to die. No natural immunity is ever discussed, no other treatments are ever discussed. You are considered a pariah if you even mention there are other avenues to treating something that most people recover from I’ve had it, I know.
When the messaging doesn’t make sense, there is something nefarious being done behind the scenes. THAT’S the message coming through
No thanks
He and his Network were militantly against the vaccine. Didn’t work out so well for him now did it.
Died from a “combination “ of pneumonia and covid? Sure. I believe that 🙄
How ironic he's the Forced Family Professor.
It is nit a coinkedink that these jabs suppress your immune system. That’s a killer side effect!
“Christians are the problem.”
501c(3) Government sanctioned churches is a program of the devil.
And since the government owns their asses more or less once they sign into that contract the government can hold sway.
I think taking a tax deduction on a church donation waters down the meaning and intent of the tithe. Giving 10% tithe to the church for church work and then turn around and claim that money as a tax deduction? I know it sounds like a good idea but if you think about it from a NT perspective THAT DEDUCTION actually goes against the personal act of giving the tithe.
I know 501c(3) churches aren’t supposed to be PACs but 501c(3) churches in this country preach politics all through the political election cycle and then NEVER get called on it. Why?
Non 501c(3) churches can talk about politics all they want, and then they get doxxed for doing what they’re allowed to do by NOT entering in into a contract with the government as a 501c(3) church
We all pass on unless the Lord catches us all up before then.
Many many pro vaxxers died of “covid related” causes after vaxx.
Pneumonia is the killer pretty much regardless of which UR virus one contracts.
I have read a ridiculous number of articles about this stuff—and I have decided to follow the approach of the “experts”.
They obviously believe in magic—so do I.
These vaxxes magically cause coincidences.
Black magic.
Keep that stuff away from me!
I have heard that covid vaccines are made using aborted fetal tissues. Apparently only white evangelical Christians are the only people who object to that. If you want Muslims to become a larger unvaccinated population tell them that the vaccines are made from pig tissues
A few radio hosts, like Dan Bongino and another host from the same network, were vaxxed and boosted. Still got COVID.
That is for mosquitoes.
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