Posted on 12/09/2022 7:44:31 PM PST by lightman
People who have received COVID-19 vaccines express discriminatory attitudes toward unvaccinated people, a new study of over 15,000 citizens of 21 countries across the world suggests.
“Individuals who comply with the advice of health authorities morally condemn the unvaccinated for violating a social contract in the midst of a crisis,” two Denmark-based scientists wrote in their paper, published Thursday in Nature. “Those who refuse vaccines report that they feel discriminated and pressured against their will.”
To measure COVID-19 vaccination status-based prejudice, researchers asked some 15,233 people how they feel if a close relatives of theirs are going to marry a vaccinated or unvaccinated person—a question that has long been used in surveys on discrimination along racial, ethnic, or partisan lines.
Specifically, participants were presented with brief descriptions of a series of fictitious individuals and asked to imagine that these are people whom one of their close relatives intends to marry. They were shown two profiles at a time, side by side, and asked to rate each profile by saying whether they agree or disagree with statements such as, “I would be unhappy if this person married one of my close relatives,” and “I think this person is untrustworthy.”
One of the six attributes describing these targeted individuals has been their COVID-19 vaccination status, randomly varying between “fully vaccinated” and “unvaccinated.” The other attributes were age, occupation, hobbies, personality, and “family background,” which distinguished between people “born and raised in [the respondent’s country]” and people who “immigrated from the Middle East.” The Findings
Across six countries—Germany, India, Indonesia, Morocco, South Africa, and the United Kingdom—selected to represent both affluent Western and developing non-Western nations, the unvaccinated were found to be disliked among vaccinated people (14 percentage points) as much as people with drug addiction (15 percentage points), and significantly more so than people who had been in prison (10 percentage points), atheists (7 percentage points), or people with mental illness (6 percentage points).
In addition, the overall dislike of the unvaccinated among vaccinated people (13 percentage points) was found to be two and a half times greater than that of Middle Eastern immigrants (5 percentage points). In fact, according to the paper, unvaccinated people face significantly more hostility than immigrants even in 10 countries that are deemed unfriendly to immigrants. Interestingly, discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated Middle Eastern immigrants were found to be just as strong as those toward unvaccinated natives.
By contrast, researchers found that the unvaccinated respondents on average showed almost no discriminatory attitudes toward the vaccinated.
“The results demonstrate that prejudice is mostly one-sided,” the authors wrote. “Only in [the] United States and Germany do we find that the unvaccinated feel some antipathy towards the vaccinated. But even here we do not find statistical evidence in favor of negative stereotyping or exclusionary attitudes.”
“The observation that vaccinated individuals discriminate against those who are unvaccinated, but that there is no evidence for the reverse, is consistent with work on the psychology of cooperation,” said leading author Alexander Bor, a political psychologist at the George Soros-funded Central European University (CEU). A Psychological Explanation
Such prejudice can be explained by a psychological mechanism against “free-riding,” according to the study. In other words, a highly polarized and moralized sentiment surrounding COVID-19 vaccination activated this mechanism in vaccinated people, causing them to see those who refuse to get the jabs as morally-failed “free riders” of a collective effort.
This might also explain why the unvaccinated face stronger prejudice in cultures that have deeper cooperative dilemmas. “Vaccinated individuals in cultures with stronger cooperative norms are shown to react more negatively against those who are unvaccinated,” Bor said in a CEU news release.
“In the short run, prejudice towards the unvaccinated may complicate pandemic management. In the long run, it may mean that societies leave the pandemic more divided than they entered it,” the authors concluded, arguing that authorities should avoid using moralistic rhetoric that could fuel deep animosity between citizens during a “social crisis.”
The study was based on data collected between Dec. 3, 2021, and Jan. 28, 2022, from 21 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Each country was represented by at least 500 adults, quota-sampled to match its population in age, gender, and region of residence.
Researchers said they intentionally excluded the poorest countries where COVID-19 vaccines were not yet widely available to the public.
I CHOSE to get vaccinated....my CHOICE.
I also CHOSE NOT to get "boo$ted"....again, my CHOICE.
If the vaccination is even half of what it is claimed to be I really don't give a rat's rump whether anyone else is vaccinated or unvaccinated, masked or unmasked, coughing or calm, close or distant!
I am pro VOLUNTARY vax. I am barely tolerant VOLUNTARY mask. I am anti MANDATORY vax. I am vehemently anti MANDATORY mask.
I have ZERO need to "feel safe" on the basis that everyone in a venue, a health care facility, or any other place has dutifully shown their papers or donned a diaper.
America will remain "the land of the free" ONLY if we demonstrate that we are "the home of the brave"!
I know a lot of good, smart people that got the vax or had jobs that compelled them to get the vax.
Each person should have been free to make their own choice.
I worry about those who were vaxxed because the side effects were being suppressed in the news, but never looked down on them.
Those who demanded I get it, when I have a known endocrine disorder that would make battling the side effects a real challenge, have earned my contempt.
>> “Individuals who comply with the advice of health authorities morally condemned the unvaccinated...”
the feeling’s mutual
Only because of the gaslighting by the powers that be that have told everyone that the unvaxxed were threats and just outright murderers.
A relative related to me that he had a doctor rag on him about the vax telling him that if he remained unvaxxed, caught Covid, passed it on, and that person died, he’d be a murderer for that.
He filed a complaint about that doctor with a patient advocate who said that was WRONG. Needless to say, he’s looking for a new doctor.
I know of a couple in their low 70’s who followed their PCP’s advice NOT to take the COVID jab who have yet to see their newest grandchild who will soon be two.
The child’s parents are vaccine-zealots who are deathly afraid that their youngster might contract the CCP-cooties from their unvaccinated grandparents.
Pnnchline: Their little precious got COVID at day care.
Can they explain how, if the vaccine works, they can get Covid from them?
Those people .. mass formation psychosis.
“Needless to say, he’s looking for a new doctor.”
So am I. The WuFlu hoax was a real eye opener when it comes to the medical industrial complex — and my own doctor.
I was so close to buckling / caving to my exwife to get our kids vaxed..... and bam my 12 year old daughter gets covid the next day... she lost a little taste for a couple months but other than that it was just a cold. My son gets strep throat way worse.
Death does not enslave you.. the fear of it does. I would Line my children and family up first for polio vax…. Never for a vax against an RNA virus. Anyone with a biology 101 class would know better.
Stay fearful… stay enslaved. They are just getting warmed up.
Lots of info on Covid vaccine injury.
Steve Kirsch’s substack
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/about
Dr. Robert Malone’s substack
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/about
Both men are on Gab as well, and Dr. Peter McCullough. Worth following if you’re on Gab.
#PureBlood
@RobertMaloneMD @stkirsch @PeterMcCulloughMD
Big Pharma medical industrial complex
FTFY
My doc is pretty OK, fortunately. But yes, I look at many institutions very differently now.
Okay fine. Ill accept discrimination for being unvaxed and you can suck on dieng suddenly.
It will become a fading phenomenon as the COVID junkies drop from the new epidemic that the government and Pharmas are pushing hard to get a vaccine for, that is SADS.
My doc just asks if I have had he vaxx and if I want it. I say “no” and that is the end of it. I know he is required to bring up the subject every time I see him because of Medicare rules. I ask if he has had it and he changes he subject.
Dying.
CoupFlu policy has NEVER been about public health anywhere on the planet.
Our old GP didn’t just ask us, he pushed it and was very condescending. Our new GP (a drive, but worth it) does not recommend it, but does treat vax injuries (which they are seeing more and more at their practice)
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