Opinion Vaccine hesitancy is growing. Doctors will have to fight back. - "The solution is to counter the disinformation and to realize that anti-vaccine statements on social media, in particular, can be extremely harmful and misleading."

Vaccine hesitancy is growing. Doctors will have to fight back.
The Washington Post (archive.ph)
By The Editorial Board
2023-05-17 23:16:42GMT

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A nurse prepares a coronavirus vaccine dose at the Ward 4 D.C. Covid Center on March 31. (Eric Lee for The Washington Post)

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, and the credit goes to parents who, year after year, brought their children to get measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations. When enough children are vaccinated, say 90 percent or more in a school or community, they reach herd immunity, and the highly contagious measles virus has nowhere to go. Now, a new public opinion survey of attitudes toward childhood vaccines suggests most parents will continue this essential practice — but there is reason to worry about growing skepticism of lifesaving medications.

The survey by the Pew Research Center of 10,701 U.S. adults conducted between March 13 to 19, published Tuesday, found that Americans “remain steadfast in their belief in the overall value of childhood vaccines,” with no change over four years “in the large majority who say the benefits of childhood vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) outweigh the risks.” This view was endorsed by 88 percent of those questioned, compared with just 10 percent who said the risks outweigh the benefits, a share unchanged from before the pandemic. Uptake of the vaccine nationwide remains above 90 percent.

Nevertheless, the report documents deepening vaccine hesitancy in the United States — that is, the tendency of people to hold back out of suspicion, disinformation and anti-vaccine lobbying. This was evident in response to a question about whether healthy children should be vaccinated as a requirement for attending public school. A surprising 28 percent of those responding said parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children, up 12 points from four years ago. Shifts in views among Republicans is responsible for this change. In 2019, 79 percent of them said they supported requiring children to be vaccinated to attend public schools; that has shrunk to 57 percent. By contrast, there is “no meaningful change” in the 85 percent of Democrats who support such a requirement. Also unsettling, White evangelical Protestants backed such school requirements by 77 percent to 20 percent four years ago, but in the latest survey, the support was 58 percent to 40 percent.

The survey also highlights enduring skepticism about coronavirus vaccines. Fewer than half of U.S. adults believe the preventive health benefits of coronavirus vaccines are high, while 7 in 10 hold this view of the childhood measles vaccines, the survey said.

Measles spreads when an infected person coughs or sneezes. It can cause serious complications and death, especially among children. A major outbreak occurred in the United States in 2019, and another last year in Columbus, Ohio, caused largely by unvaccinated children. But for the most part, outbreaks have been sporadic in the United States. The rest of the world has suffered more disease because the pandemic disrupted many childhood immunization campaigns.

Even so, the United States is facing a tide of uncertainty that is unwarranted by the lifesaving performance of vaccines during the pandemic. The solution is to counter the disinformation and to realize that anti-vaccine statements on social media, in particular, can be extremely harmful and misleading. Public health officials were slow to mount a response during the coronavirus pandemic; rapid and forceful communication should be a key public health tool and one also used on the front lines of medicine. There is high value in the message coming from family doctors. The Pew survey highlights the public’s continuing trust in information from a doctor or other health-care provider about vaccines. These clinicians can play a major role in fending off the shadowy doubts and unfounded suspicions, if they speak up forcefully, early and often.
 
While I'd love to see it, I fully believe academia will continue to be an orthodoxy-enforcing institution that makes the medieval church look flexible by comparison. That's its state function now and even if administrators weren't zealots, their funding will be dependent on how well they toe the line of that orthodoxy.
I can see exactly why you view it this way, but you're giving these faggots too much credit. Unless they seriously change direction their own inadequacy will be their end; their saving grace used to be that this shit wasn't public every time they fucked up, now the general public all around western civilization are in on it. They know this and we know they know because of how desperate and quickly they've acted out their agenda over the last ten years, if they can't get the lid back on their shits rocked.

You only need look at history to know how quickly things can crumble when they start. Not that long ago we'd have looked at the classic USSR as a permanent feature.

Have hope fren, they're squirming, it's a great sign.
 
The survey also highlights enduring skepticism about coronavirus vaccines. Fewer than half of U.S. adults believe the preventive health benefits of coronavirus vaccines are high, while 7 in 10 hold this view of the childhood measles vaccines, the survey said.
There are very good reasons why people are skeptical about the wu flu shot. It does not work and comes with yet unknown dangers.
Even so, the United States is facing a tide of uncertainty that is unwarranted by the lifesaving performance of vaccines during the pandemic.
Prove one life was saved by the vaccines. I will wait. I have never seen an assessment of the efficacy of the jab that includes newer variants emerging that were less lethal. I italicize less lethal because we know death numbers were being inflated. We know that because Birx said it early on and it has been confirmed down the line.
The solution is to counter the disinformation and to realize that anti-vaccine statements on social media, in particular, can be extremely harmful and misleading. Public health officials were slow to mount a response during the coronavirus pandemic; rapid and forceful communication should be a key public health tool and one also used on the front lines of medicine.
Big Tech censored any dissent at the behest of the government and they still could not hide the reality that the mRNA vaccines were a shoddy product that might cause healthy young people to drop dead.

Forceful communication uh-huh. You mean people being silenced by force right? Maybe you ban them from the modern town square? Maybe you send the FBI to their door? Maybe you kidnap their children?
There is high value in the message coming from family doctors.
Is there?

I mean there were family doctors who told old people to take aspirin until their ears rang for arthritis.

How many soccer moms got hooked on opioids because their doctor told them they were not addicting?

Also the health care scene since Obama care has become a very sad place where your family doctor might be some rando you were forced to go with because everything shifted.

This oped is written in a very dishonest fashion using half facts and whole lies. I would expect nothing less from the outlet that refuses to return an award they were given for propagating a known lie.

Fuck WaPo in the ass with a spiked jade dildo.
 
Aside from all the fear mongering about the vaccines, the lockdowns and similar measures made so many people to lose their doctor appointments, specially children. Many were also terrified of going to hospitals because they were told they were full and people were dying like flies. Where were we supposed to vaccinate our kids? Some black alley next to the guy offering abortions?
 
family doctors
Can fuck up. Like everyone else. I have stories for days about doctors fucking up, that's why it's called "practicing" medicine.

Aside from all the fear mongering about the vaccines, the lockdowns and similar measures made so many people to lose their doctor appointments, specially children. Many were also terrified of going to hospitals because they were told they were full and people were dying like flies. Where were we supposed to vaccinate our kids? Some black alley next to the guy offering abortions?
That was hysterical in the saddest possible way. Majority of the clinics that handled regular check ups and childhood vaccines were told to either limit or entirely cease care to their typical patients and only be there for covid related shit. My kids doctor was pissed about it because he wasn't able to see his regular patients but the abortion clinic down the street was able to operate as they normally would.
 
Can fuck up. Like everyone else. I have stories for days about doctors fucking up, that's why it's called "practicing" medicine.


That was hysterical in the saddest possible way. Majority of the clinics that handled regular check ups and childhood vaccines were told to either limit or entirely cease care to their typical patients and only be there for covid related shit. My kids doctor was pissed about it because he wasn't able to see his regular patients but the abortion clinic down the street was able to operate as they normally would.
That should tell you right there it was sus. Abortions are 100% elective procedures.
 
‘Hesitancy.’
This word has been very carefully chosen by nudge units. It implies a state of temporary unsure ness followed by capitulation. It has an air of inevitability of caving in about it.
When I am world empress, the nudge units and all who power them will be fired into the sun.
No doctors will not have to fight back. They will have to regain trust.
Measles is a very nasty disease, which wipes immune memory and leaves children vulnerable again to things they had already developed immunity to. The death rate from all infectious causes in kids rises after a measles outbreak. And what is the actual, real cause of it coming back? Immigration.
We are seeing the return of these diseases not because people aren’t giving vaccines, by and large they are in the Uk, but because people are flooding in from the third world and living in squalid conditions.
This article doesn’t even mention that. The Uk had almost eradicated TB and now bits of London have above third world levels of it, much of which is resistor at least one drug. Import the third world, die of third world diseases
 
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A used car salesman has to give you a product that actually has some level of basic functioning though. Granted its almost certainly a lemon but it will function as marketed at least some of the time. The "vaccines" we got couldn't even accomplish that much. Hell, Fauci is even worse than a snake oil seller because at least the snake oil seller is giving a product that makes you feel better even as it kills you which is the complete opposite of the vaccine where it makes you feel worse before it kills you.
Even worse... the streetshitters BECOME the doctors
Which is exactly why the NHS is so fucked.
Not that long ago we'd have looked at the classic USSR as a permanent feature.
Everyone thought it would manage to stumble along for at least several decades more in a slightly-less shithole state even with the loss of the Pact since Gorby was doing his best to make sure its internal affairs were at least somewhat in order. In hindsight its a miracle the inevitable total collapse didn't end in nuclear-armed warlords.
Why aren't you doing that already?
People wouldn't have gone to the village apothecary in the Middle Ages if their treatments didn't do anything... While I'm not saying anything there is a cure-all or even as potent as modern medicine (because god damn have we managed to purify and extract what nature has provided to a ridiculous state thanks to actual fucking science) you can grow a garden that will help with minor injuries and illnesses.
The Uk had almost eradicated TB
At least one good thing came out of The Mighty Hood blowing up, then... Silver linings and all that, you know.
 
"Maybe if we keep talking people will start believing us again." No fuck you. The medical industry lost my trust when they lied about the clot shot. They pushed a useless, unnecessary, and largely untested vaccine to line their own pockets. The opioid epidemic made me wary but the jab completely destroyed any trust i have left in the medical and pharmaceutical industry. No amount of social pressure will change that.
In their minds, they can never fail, only be failed. Nothing is ever their fault, things just happen to them.
‘Hesitancy.’
This word has been very carefully chosen by nudge units. It implies a state of temporary unsure ness followed by capitulation. It has an air of inevitability of caving in about it.
When I am world empress, the nudge units and all who power them will be fired into the sun.
They always are deliberate with their word choice. It rustles my jimmies when you start to notice the patterns.

I didn't know about "nudge units" or Nudge Theory until just now. Fuck me, that's a terrifying concept.

You are not immune to propaganda.
 
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I didn't know about "nudge units" or Nudge Theory until just now. Fuck me, that's a terrifying concept.

You are not immune to propaganda.
No one’s immune. Some people are extremely susceptible to it and some a little less so.
Yeah go look up the behavioural insights team. BIT, Also called the nudge unit. The UK government is quite proud of them and you can see their work all over, it has a particular ‘feel’ to it.
 
No one’s immune. Some people are extremely susceptible to it and some a little less so.
Yeah go look up the behavioural insights team. BIT, Also called the nudge unit. The UK government is quite proud of them and you can see their work all over, it has a particular ‘feel’ to it.
That's the problem for them though, once you recognise it that's it, it's like the they live glasses, I see new phrases and wordisms that I don't necessarily associate with em, but I know right away it's something. It usually turns out to be the starts of the next buzzphrase.

They're not quite smart enough to hide it efficiently from the aware. It gives their games away some .
 
I can't say for sure how many around me were hesitant at the first jab, but they were outright fucking skeptical once the deal became "well, you're going to need boosters".

The mask theater - which anyone with any sense knew was some old bullshit - was bad enough, but for some fucking reason people put up with it.

The deal was, "two and done". You think just because people put up with that shit for a year or two that you could drag it out indefinitely, particularly when the goalposts were constantly shifting?
 
The mask theater - which anyone with any sense knew was some old bullshit - was bad enough, but for some fucking reason people put up with it.

They just put the screws in, and make it impossible to function in society, unless you capitulate. During 2020, I saw videos of people being pushed to the ground and arrested for not wearing a mask on the street.
 
They just put the screws in, and make it impossible to function in society, unless you capitulate. During 2020, I saw videos of people being pushed to the ground and arrested for not wearing a mask on the street.
Yep, and the fucking audacity for asking for amnesty after "Sorry for what we did when there was COVID."

No, you fucking pricks. You acted like uncouth apes over the last fucking banana.
 
No one’s immune. Some people are extremely susceptible to it and some a little less so.
Yeah go look up the behavioural insights team. BIT, Also called the nudge unit. The UK government is quite proud of them and you can see their work all over, it has a particular ‘feel’ to it.
They've been at it since Blair. I believe it was Alastair Campbell that started a lot of it, the cockmongler. Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It was partly based on him, and once you see that you can't unsee it.
 
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