Just left a comment on a FB post related to COVID vax. Saints, pray for me.
BUT on a related note... someone needs to look into how class divides are affecting people's confidence in vaccines. It's not about "trusting the science" so much as whether you know people you trust who are doing the science.
If you exist in a socioeconomic class that includes doctors, chemists, researchers, clinicians etc, you're more likely to have personal proximity to someone whose work you trust b/c you trust them.
Now imagine if a segment of the population doesn't have similar social access. They might have proximity to nurses or hospital workers but these folks are doing applied science, not theoretical science.
Suddenly the folks outside your community & social circle are telling you, even demanding, that you have to do something to your body. You don't know them--you probably don't even trust them.
You do trust your friends, relatives, pastors, & community leaders. You trust people you know. So you weigh what they're telling you against what outsiders are telling you & naturally side w/ folks closer to home.
That's why misinformation can spread so easily. There's little to stop it once it enters a particular social network. It using the existing set of relationships & established trust to spread.
Misinformation is basically a network marketing scheme, but instead of purses and oils, it trades in propaganda.
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