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| The Anti-vaccine Con Job Is Becoming Untenable |
| 2021-08-02 |
| h/t HotAir [The Atlantic] - Something very strange has been happening in Missouri: A hospital in the state, Ozarks Healthcare, had to create a "private setting" for patients afraid of being seen getting vaccinated against COVID-19. In a video produced by the hospital, the physician Priscilla Frase says, "Several people come in to get vaccinated who have tried to sort of disguise their appearance and even went so far as to say, ’Please, please, please don’t let anybody know that I got this vaccine.’" Although they want to protect themselves from the coronavirus and its variants, these patients are desperate to ensure that their vaccine-skeptical friends and family never find out what they have done. ...What is going on here? Sociology suggests that pundits and policy makers have been looking at vaccine refusal all wrong: It’s not an individual problem, but a social one. That’s why individual information outreach and individual incentives—such as Ohio’s Vax-a-Million program, intended to increase vaccine uptake with cash prizes and college scholarships—haven’t worked. Pandemics, by definition, are collective problems. They propagate and kill because people live in communities. As a result, addressing pandemics requires understanding interpersonal dynamics—not just what promotes trust among people, but which behaviors convey status or lead to ostracism. ...Shifting from an individual to a relational perspective helps us understand why people are seeking vaccination in disguise. They want to save face within the very specific set of social ties that sociologists call "reference groups"—the neighborhoods, churches, workplaces, and friendship networks that help people obtain the income, information, companionship, mutual aid, and other resources they need to live. The price of access to those resources is conformity to group norms. That’s why nobody strives for the good opinion of everyone; most people primarily seek the approval of people in their own reference groups. ...In Missouri and other red states, vaccine refusal on partisan grounds has become a defining marker of community affiliation. Acceptance within some circles is contingent on refusal to cooperate with the Biden administration’s public-health campaign. Getting vaccinated is a betrayal of that group norm, and those who get the shot can legitimately fear losing their job or incurring the wrath of their families and other reference groups. Deplorables to the Establishment: "You can kick out MY president. You can make Jan 6 rioters enemies of the state. But you cannot make me vaccinate!" Establishment (in a quiet aside) "I love it when a plan comes together!" ...COVID-19-related cons have become big business, not just for right-wing media outlets that have gained viewers while purveying vaccine disinformation but also for small-time social-media grifters and enterprising professionals. The New York Times recently profiled Joseph Mercola, a Florida osteopath whom the paper described as "The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation." Four years ago, the Federal Trade Commission forced Mercola to pay nearly $3 million in settlements for false advertising claims about indoor tanning beds that he had sold. In February of this year, Mercola told his millions of followers on Facebook that the vaccine would "alter your genetic coding," and promoted his line of vitamin supplements as an alternative to ward off COVID-19. That's why they should biology basics in high-school. To outsiders, the social dynamics of the con appear peculiar and irrational. Those caught up in it can seem self-destructive and, frankly, clueless. But to sociologists, including me, who study fraud, such behaviors obey a predictable logic. The seminal text in the field—Erving Goffman’s 1952 essay "On Cooling the Mark Out"—observes that all targets of con artists eventually come to understand that they have been defrauded, yet they almost never complain or report the crime to authorities. Why? Because, Goffman argues, admitting that one has been conned is so deeply shameful that marks experience it as a kind of social death. The victim, he writes,
...In this light, the recent volte-face of many prominent conservatives toward enthusiastic endorsement of vaccination is great news for everyone who wants to see an end to the pandemic. Representative Steve Scalise, a high-ranking House Republican from Louisiana, recently got vaccinated on camera. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a press secretary in the Trump White House now running for governor of Arkansas, published an op-ed disclosing that she and her family had gotten vaccinated. On Tuesday, Senator Roy Blunt used the Republican leadership’s weekly press conference to urge his constituents in Missouri to get vaccinated—presumably without resorting to disguises. We should also note that Trump urges his voters to get vaccinated (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/07/20/white-house-gives-rare-praise-to-trump-for-endorsing-coronavirus-vaccines/?sh=2bcc735f4cd9) |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #12 There ain't nobody here but us chickens! The Bobs Louis Jordan '47 |
| Posted by: Marilyn Bumble4397 2021-08-02 10:46 |
| #11 I'm currently reading this book, Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid (highly recommended) and the author mentions in passing that The Atlantic was peddling unbelievably smarmy leftist drivel in the 1920s... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-02 10:27 |
| #10 Don't forget, the CCP is buying those ads. |
| Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 2021-08-02 09:19 |
| #9 ^ Nailed it. Once the contradictions start, they snowball. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-02 08:46 |
| #8 As usual The Atlantic reads like a "developed" story full of polite subtle guilt steering and reverse logic. I feel a vast majority of America could give a rats A$$ if a person gets the Vax or not. But toss in VICTIM-HOOD and it sells AD space for the media. To us the Covid-19 is acting just like a seasonal flu that has seasonal strains. Where a shot for one strain season does not fully protect or even work at all for the other. ☻ ☺ WAIT FOR IT ☺ ☻ WOKE to whine, the reason the Black Community is so poorly vaccinated is because of the Whites in line ahead of them. So Whites must stop being vaccinated to be WOKE. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-08-02 08:39 |
| #7 They sort of threw out the Nuremberg Code on human testing. The FDA classifies these as experimental drugs. Therefore it falls under the Code. Up front and number 1 - The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-08-02 08:22 |
| #6 Thanks TW. Oh WAIT! The Wakandan community is refusing to vaccinate, not fully on-board? Obviously the so called "anti-vaccine Con Job" must be focused elsewhere. How about.... yes, Missouri. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-08-02 06:38 |
| #5 The emphasis is mine, not the KFF analysts’. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-02 06:36 |
| #4 It’s the Atlantic — they can’t help themselves. That’s why I gave up my subscription back in the late 1980s. From the Kaiser Family Foundation: Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity Nambi Ndugga , Latoya Hill , Samantha Artiga , and Noah Parker Published: Jul 21, 2021 Close to 70% (68.3%) of the adult population in the United States have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. While this progress represents a marked achievement in vaccinations that has led to steep declines in COVID-19 cases and deaths, vaccination coverage—and the protections provided by it—remains uneven across the country. With growing spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are once again rising, largely among unvaccinated people. Persistently lower vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic people compared to their White counterparts across most states leave them at increased risk, particularly as the variant spreads. Reaching high vaccination rates across individuals and communities will be key for achieving broad protection through a vaccine, mitigating the disproportionate impacts of the virus for people of color, and preventing widening racial health disparities going forward. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has indicated that vaccine equity is an important goal and defined equity as preferential access and administration to those who have been most affected by COVID-19. Discussion Together, these data show that, despite recent trends suggesting improving equity in COVID-19 vaccination patterns and a recent narrowing in the gap between vaccination rates for White and Hispanic people, disparities are persisting. Less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in nearly all states reporting data, including a number of states where less than a third have received a vaccine. These lower vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic people leave them at increased risk for coronavirus, particularly as the Delta variant spreads, potentially leading to widening disparities going forward and limiting the nation’s recovery. Issues & Insights has a discussion of the subject dated July 23rd. It includes the KFF data, and points out that it is the Blacks and the young, who are refusing to be vaccinated at the highest rates, |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-08-02 06:33 |
| #3 'The Atlantic' was it? Heavily read and subscribed to by fly-over rubes in Missouri, I am sure. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-08-02 06:02 |
| #2 Sociology suggests that pundits and policy makers have been looking at vaccine refusal all wrong Another fine subject for the curriculum. addressing pandemics requires understanding interpersonal dynamics "Fcuk the scientists and economists, look at us! Over here!" - Sociologist |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-02 05:39 |
| #1 Civil action # 2-21-cv-00702-CLM filed Jun-10 Dist. Court of Alabama. Vaccine con exposed. Violated all ten of the Nuremberg crimes against humanity 1947. |
| Posted by: Dale 2021-08-02 03:46 |