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.
She had a headache for one night, and I was only sick with it for two days.
Proud pureblood..as are my wife, kids and grandkids. We prefer to be wolves vice sheep.
Kirsch has been talking to embalmers/funeral directors close to a year now. Glad to have Stew helping bring it to the light.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/worldwide-exclusive-embalmers-find
I work in likely the most conservative section of my overall industry and most of us are very skeptical and distrustful by nature and reinforced by experience
From what we can tell about 50-60 % max complied with vax mandates (probably 15% of those obtained a fake card by some means, bribed the shot giver or ina few cases paid a vagrant to take the shot for them at the big public centers where no one was paying much attention) mostly to remain employed as most jobs in here keep you in the top 5% or higher and are valued
My LinkedIn feed seems to have another under 50 person who died suddenly almost daily and I hear of people with cancer or other weird stuff constantly the last year
LOL
While a great many people were able to shake off COVID, I am a long-hauler.
My lungs were destroyed in 2020. Now it looks like my heart was damaged as well. They are testing me for a number of things, including myocarditis.
I would never willingly introduce into my body anything that would replicate the effects of COVID or force my system to respond. Cutting my life expectancy in half (and now down to just a few years, max) was enough sacrifice to the medical industry and their experiments.
Vaccinated people get covid, produce variant strains which they impose on everyone, some die of covid and some die and get sick from complications of the shot. Too, they don’t seem to have natural immunity after being sick with covid. This isn’t even arguable.
Who are they to resent me, who has natural immunity, for not being vaxxed? Can I resent them for clogging up the healthcare system?
IMO, we can blame part of the ‘doctor group think’ on all the ‘bundling of health services.
When we went to a doc of our choice & paid the bill directly ourselves-—we had better health care. The doc wanted you to live long & PROSPER so you & your family could continue to use his services.
NOW-—You need “Permission” from a bunch of pencil pushers to get ANY kind of medical services.
Are they still asking about GUNS in the home???
It isn’t just the Covid shots-—
There are ‘shots’ for almost every other thing on the planet.
HOW can ANYONE still have a working immune system???
Never said a word about guns.
Could you explain please?
As I understood from your post, you got Covid in 2020 (so no vaccination) and that has hit you hard.
But you say that vaccinations to prevent Covid such as what you got are not good. Could you explain please?
“People who have received COVID-19 vaccines express discriminatory attitudes toward unvaccinated people”
Oh. I’m shattered. LOL!
That door swings both ways, Baby. SOME people discriminate against vaccinated people. I call that a stalemate.
“individuals in cultures with stronger cooperative norms “
Never heard “cooperative norms” before. Does that mean sheep?
The vaccinations do not prevent COVID and can actually replicate or cause all the nasty side effects and damage as if you had COVID.
Zero benefit.
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