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I see a lot of people puzzled by the fact that those who distrust the Covid vaccines are simultaneously enthusiastic about evidence-less "treatments" like HCQ or ivermectin, and coming up with convoluted theories to explain their possible thought process... but it's really simple
They just come across a lot of content (typically on Facebook) that says "vaccine are dangerous" and "ivermectin is a miracle cure". That's it. That's how it works. People respond to the information they consume. Disinformation *works*. People read things online & believe them.
It's *not* about: - What the CDC or FDA says - What the government says - What specific politicians say (though if a politician's statements are part of someone's information diet, then that will have an impact) - Nostalgia towards the "good old days" of medical treatments
No need to invoke far-fetched psychological, cultural, or political theories. There are info ecosystems where vaccines are constantly decried as evil, while the miracle cure of the day is getting the spotlight. People who read this stuff every day believe it. How could they not?
And by the way, there's nothing organic about it. They didn't come up with these ideas themselves. They're not actively organizing disinformation campaigns -- they just unwittingly participate in them.
If you want to fix it, you need to go after those who are engineering the disinformation campaigns (sometimes for profit, sometimes just as a way to sow chaos) as well as their enablers.
How so?
Is this not driven by a denial defence reaction in light of a complex situation and associated uncertainty? Uncertainty is uncomfortable. Then, once in denial, people would discard everything that goes against their conspiracy theory and blindly accept anything that goes along.
I’d say there’s an element of rebellion/ counter culture to it too. Since these pieces of advise tend to go against mainstream science
And why do they want to rebel?
Things are not just black and white.
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