The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group of All? PhDs(unherd.com)
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The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group of All? PhDs
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Did notice this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140315
I dont get the whole "Trump supporters who don’t want to take the vaccine." Thing. Trump is and always was very vocal pro vaccine. So for whatever reason someone may not want the vaccine its surely has nothing to do with Trump. Some kind of statistical correlation does not imply causation. And vaccine hesitancy is far grater in many other countries where there is no Trump anyway.
> I dont get the whole "Trump supporters who don’t want to take the vaccine." Thing. Trump is and always was very vocal pro vaccine.
And yet, vaccine hesistancy and being a Trump voter are nevertheless tied to each other, all year. [0] And the partisan divide has grown over time. [1]
> So for whatever reason someone may not want the vaccine its surely has nothing to do with Trump.
It may not have a lot to do with Trump directly, and more to do with that attachment to a particular partisan media bubble, which also is the same one associated with voting for Trump. But there us a real and strong relationship, even if it isn’t simple, direct “Support for Trump leads to vaccine hesitancy” (which I’ve never seen claimed, anyway.)
[0] see, among others, https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/07/28/here-ar... https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/567549-poll-nearly-thi... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/us/vaccine-he...
[1] https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...
And yet, vaccine hesistancy and being a Trump voter are nevertheless tied to each other, all year. [0] And the partisan divide has grown over time. [1]
> So for whatever reason someone may not want the vaccine its surely has nothing to do with Trump.
It may not have a lot to do with Trump directly, and more to do with that attachment to a particular partisan media bubble, which also is the same one associated with voting for Trump. But there us a real and strong relationship, even if it isn’t simple, direct “Support for Trump leads to vaccine hesitancy” (which I’ve never seen claimed, anyway.)
[0] see, among others, https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/07/28/here-ar... https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/567549-poll-nearly-thi... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/17/us/vaccine-he...
[1] https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/the-red-blue-divide-in-covi...
My whole point was that "Trump supporter" is a nonsense name for the lose group of people they mean by it and it seems to be intentional to "brand" people like that. And BTW all the mainstream media is pro vaccine regardless of which political side they are associated with. Only niche more radical outlets aren't.
Assuming a majority of vaccine hesitant people is in such an radical media bubble is kind strange and seems to be just an attempt to "simplify to dismiss" the problem.
Assuming a majority of vaccine hesitant people is in such an radical media bubble is kind strange and seems to be just an attempt to "simplify to dismiss" the problem.