That side note is interesting and seems worth expanding on. Would seem to suggest that people aren’t so much distrustful of vaccines and medicine as they are distrustful of anything the government wants to stick in their arm for free with penalties for non-compliance. That might even be a reasonable heuristic if it wasn’t the start and end of any reasoning done.
It would also suggest that the way to get the last stuborn 10%/20%/30% of the population vaccinated is to have someone loudly critical of the government make and promote a different vaccine (maybe license and rebrand one from a different not too friendly country), then make people pay for it. Bonus points if the establishment is seen objecting that you shouldn’t go pay for that vaccine when the govt has perfectly good free ones.
That side note is interesting and seems worth expanding on. Would seem to suggest that people aren’t so much distrustful of vaccines and medicine as they are distrustful of anything the government wants to stick in their arm for free with penalties for non-compliance. That might even be a reasonable heuristic if it wasn’t the start and end of any reasoning done.
It would also suggest that the way to get the last stuborn 10%/20%/30% of the population vaccinated is to have someone loudly critical of the government make and promote a different vaccine (maybe license and rebrand one from a different not too friendly country), then make people pay for it. Bonus points if the establishment is seen objecting that you shouldn’t go pay for that vaccine when the govt has perfectly good free ones.