This is an important thread. However, one does need to distinguish between the vaccine-hesitant, who can be reached, and antivaxxers, who almost certainly cannot because they have internalized their antivaccine conspiracy theory beliefs as part of their identity, like religion.https://twitter.com/mariasundaram/status/1336018501723697153 …
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That family in Oregon still refused to vaccinate their kids after one was hospitalized with tetanus, I believe.
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Providence wouldn’t release him until he had a pediatrician. Enter Dr. Paul Thomas/a hall pass. Suspending his medical license was a step in the right direction for vaccine “hesitant” parents/humanity. Can’t change the hardcore, but you can take away their hall pass.
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Hard core activist antivaxxers are entirely beyond hope and should be stigmatized and ignored. The hesitant are generally redeemable in my opinion, as someone who had questions.
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Selfishness changes the view.
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I'm interested in the vaccine-averse-and-antivaxx-adjacent subset. Meaning: people whose *partners* are longtime antivaxx but who are not themselves totally converted. That's a promising sign in my experience. Merely anecdotal of course.
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You can make an antivaxxer doubt by attempting to convert them as they were converted: suggest their info planted in western medical journals by Chinese intelligence in a campaign to destabilize the US via an unhealthy populace. They’ll deny it, but it’ll stay in their mind.
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The anti-vax mindset is an entitlement of first world privilege. Ironically, I'd bet my last dollar that 99% of anti-vaxxers have been vaccinated. They just need to lose an unvaccinated child to break through protective force field of ignorance that blinds them from reality

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Yes but like depression it’s inversely correlated to true poverty
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Thanks for RT'ing! I did talk about this a little in my thread--some of these conversations won't go much of anywhere--& I encourage those finding themselves in that situation to step away with patience/kindness. It can do a lot of good, even for those just listening/watching.
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