“societal and family responsibility was an important argument in the decision to get vaccinated among the provaccination respondents, but it was a negligible argument in the vaccination-hesitant group.” #caring ja.ma/3pId5B3 via @JAMANetworkOpen part of @JAMANetwork
“COVID-19 vaccine hesitant or resistant persons were distinguished… by being more self-interested, more distrusting of experts & authority figures, more likely to hold strong religious beliefs and also conspiratorial & paranoid beliefs.” @Nature 1/1 nature.com/articles/s4146…
“They were also more impulsive in their thinking style, and had a personality characterised by being more disagreeable, more emotionally unstable, and less conscientious.” @Nature 2/2 nature.com/articles/s4146…
They are anti-vaxxers . Anti-vaxxers are not harmless; they threaten and engage in violence while promoting lies that endanger lives. Just like white supremacists, which whom they now ally. We must reject both. #StopAntiVaxViolence theguardian.com/world/2020/oct…
We witnessed this last year in California when white anti-vaxxers were allowed to repeatedly disrupt hearings and sessions of the California legislature with few consequences. #SB276#DefendDemocracy