"That feeling is what drives vaccine hesitancy, and instead of understanding that/expecting it/working with it, public health experts and doctors lectured us, saying we didn’t understand science, and calling us anti-vaxxers (my family is vaccinated, fwiw)."
Yeah exactly, I think you're spot on here. I think a key and massively under-recog…
"That feeling is what drives vaccine hesitancy, and instead of understanding that/expecting it/working with it, public health experts and doctors lectured us, saying we didn’t understand science, and calling us anti-vaxxers (my family is vaccinated, fwiw)."
Yeah exactly, I think you're spot on here. I think a key and massively under-recognised driver of vaccine hesitancy has been the awful and inconsistent messaging of governments and the criminally sensationalist reporting in the media. The lack of transparency and consistency has made so many people understandably distrustful, and as you say, the "solution" to that has been to lecture instead of to explain.
"That feeling is what drives vaccine hesitancy, and instead of understanding that/expecting it/working with it, public health experts and doctors lectured us, saying we didn’t understand science, and calling us anti-vaxxers (my family is vaccinated, fwiw)."
Yeah exactly, I think you're spot on here. I think a key and massively under-recognised driver of vaccine hesitancy has been the awful and inconsistent messaging of governments and the criminally sensationalist reporting in the media. The lack of transparency and consistency has made so many people understandably distrustful, and as you say, the "solution" to that has been to lecture instead of to explain.