It is not a popular opinion but my sense of unvaxxed covid victims in the US is they are victims of a bad epistemic landscape, and we should work to improve the epistemic landscape rather than victim-blame or dance on people's graves.
https://twitter.com/FaiolaLabUCI/status/1490735987789484036
The people who tend to be unvaxxed are of demographics that are not often seen as victims--they tend to be white, religious, conservative. However, there is a lot of evidence that people from that demographic tend to have lower scientific literacy & lower trust in science 2/
The fact that anti-vaxx and conservatives have joined hands is a recent phenomenon. However, the politicization of science is not. It is a steady process going on since the 1970s with increases w climate change debates in Bush years -- see here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 3/
So in that respect, how could governments like here in the US not have anticipated the politicization of vaccinations? A successful vaxx strategy needs to be far, far more comprehensive than paying for research & boosting supplies 4/
You need to get those vaccines in arms! A comprehensive vaxx strategy needs to have a carefully laid out plan of how to overcome vaxx hesitancy. After all, vaxx hesitancy is not a new phenomenon 5/
I'm so frustrated that there is still no comprehensive strategy to help improve the epistemic landscape! /end
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