An interviewee on the radio the other day offered the opinion that those who have accepted anti-Covid-19 vaccinations and those who have not accepted them are utterly hardened into their respective positions.
Anyone who has so far refused to be vaccinated, the speaker predicted, will continue to refuse for any of a multitude of reflexively recited pseudo-reasons, mostly guided by ideology and not by rational thought.
Their own medical vulnerabilities are disregarded as are their likelihoods of passing along infections to other people. Also, their refusals are probably facilitating developments of new Covid variants.
However, one possible aberration leading to vaccination refusal has not been mentioned, at least not to my having noticed. Think of that as the "Tsk, Tsk Factor" as in:
"You ... waited ... all ... this ... time ... and ... now ... you're ... first ... coming ... for ... your ... first ... shot ... ? Tsk, tsk. You ... did ... know ... better ... didn't ... you."
Fear of embarrassment can have a deterring effect too. Vaccination cards do show the dates of injection.
"You ... waited ... HOW ... long ... to ... get ... vaccinated ... ???"
I have no remedy for that kind of thinking, but it might be another factor of which to be aware.
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