Who should one be listening to for health advice? Anthony Fauci, InStyle cover model? Don Lemon? Bill Gates?
I bet if one group of people weren't threatening to ruin the other group's lives (deny them employment, access to education, custody of their children) you would see more in the second group willing to "vaccinate". Unfortunately the first group has taken an authoritarian posture on the matter and is consequently distrusted.
Actual doctors. Don’t like Fauci pick another actual doctor with expertise in infectious disease and they will probably say similar things.
The reason people’s lives are being ruined is because idiots won’t vaccinate and so we can’t achieve herd immunity fast enough. We could have probably stopped Delta if people listened to experts in medicine about medicine.
Do you listen to dentists about software engineering? Why do people who would never trust armchair opinions in their own field think you can listen to celebrities about medicine? Or politicians?
It’s not a partisan thing either. The antivax thing was a loony left thing before Trump brought in the new age, and if Biden started saying stupid shit about COVID I’d ignore him too. He’s not a doctor either.
I bet if one group of people weren't threatening to ruin the other group's lives (deny them employment, access to education, custody of their children) you would see more in the second group willing to "vaccinate". Unfortunately the first group has taken an authoritarian posture on the matter and is consequently distrusted.