Yes. These people absolutely exist, and some may be too ashamed to admit this, and are talking about "doing more research" when they are, in fact, frozen in fear. Mandates can absolutely help these people, in my view, but we can do more to offer support.https://twitter.com/TCPalmLStancil/status/1449003178373038115 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted b18c1swap
Yes, part of it. I've suggested mandates since May, but as
@ScottGottliebMD says, big carrots are better than big sticks when possible. Research shows an uptick in vaccine hesitancy among young women/mothers: a five-alarm fire for childhood vaccination.https://twitter.com/b18c1swap/status/1449005897221562369 …zeynep tufekci added,
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Yep. Smart policy is to allow the unvaccinated who are fearful, frozen, or made a bad decision before to wait and now can't admit it, to cross the line *in a face-saving manner.* Pry that group away from the ideological, loud, rage-inducing anti-vaxxers. https://twitter.com/PaffyRalmeiro/status/1449007804648468480 …
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I don't begrudge anyone's anger—especially at those stoking fear as a strategy in our increasingly non-responsive politics. Still must work to understand the lay of the land. *They* want it to be only a shouting match. *Their* strategy is to confuse and polarize around the anger.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted bet snyder
Immunity after infection is *of course* real but research shows vaccines also benefit these people—more flexible policies from them make sense, but we don't even have a system to verify vaccination. So many failures go back to logistics/infrastructure.https://twitter.com/BetSnyder/status/1449011303809437699 …
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bet snyder @BetSnyderReplying to @zeynep @pragmatism_ofStruggling to understand how you write a deep dive into the unvaccinated and not mention one single word about the many millions of people who have recovered from a COVID infection and already have immunity. Bizarre, baffling and disappointing.17 replies 31 retweets 360 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Kevin Dangoor
Yep. When I volunteered at a vaccination clinic, we made people *wait* watching others get jabbed, in plain view—exactly the wrong set-up, I've since realized. Needle anxiety is common and can cause people to faint, and yet so little attention to it.https://twitter.com/dangoor/status/1449021788785152000 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Codename Dutchess
Some will get sick and even die—and many are just afraid or confused, not committed anti-vaxxers. Plus, even 10% unvaccinated can overload hospitals: ICUs have little slack. And this keeps the virus circulating more, risking elderly, immunocompromised etc.https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Stick/status/1449024735807950859 …
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Also on the side-effects: I recently had a minor concern during a routine COVID test on a weekend. It resulted in a bill I was told would be between $0 and $4500—and nobody could tell me which, for months. And my insurance is what counts as really solid, for the US. Just nuts.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted S. Mitra Kalita
A thread with a good local reporting from the NYC area on this topic. "Undervaccinated areas are often barometers of disconnect."https://twitter.com/mitrakalita/status/1449368483075137542 …
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Not sure why it's shocking that a great number of people wanted to wait and see how the vaccines would affect people. Or that the age demographic impacted most would be willing to receive the vaccine. (And you basically called these people stupid). Also, you will not speak...
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I don’t think I called the “wait-and-see” folks stupid or treated it as shocking.
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