I don't think vaccine hesitancy in the population has much to do with politics. I DO think the politicians try their best to make it that way.
Sometimes it amazes me how short people's memory can be when they get blinded by ideology and are fed a steady diet of biased news. So many actually believe it is all Trumpians ... probably not a word .... and conspiracy theorists who are vaccine hesitant. Please go back and watch the presidential and vice presidential debates to see who the original antivaxxers were.
If Trump had won the election, all we would be hearing from them is how unsafe the vaccine is because Trump rushed it thru ..... I am truly amazed when people can't see the reality of these things.
I am also amazed how effective democrats are at framing this as a problem of the Trump followers.
It's the same way they have convinced so many that the republicans are the racists .... I guess those focus groups really do teach them how to create an effective lie and parse words in a way that bring the sheep along.
For me, this is not a one size fits all decision. I am 74 and my wife is 69 .... It was a no brainer for us to get vaccinated .... not so much of a no brainer to get boosted, but we did. With the vaccine efficacy waning with each new variant .... and known risks from the vaccine come more into focus each day .... it is unlikely we will go any further down that path.
I find it totally unacceptable that the vaccine is being forced on population groups who don't really need it .... with the risk vs benefit so obscured by a poor reporting system that it's nearly impossible to know the long term effects of this.
I also find it unacceptable that we are this far down stream and therapeutics and early treatments are still not in wide spread us ... even when studies prove repurposed drugs highly effective. In this case I'm talking about Fluvoxamine.... How many lives might it have saved?
I am amazed that the focus has been on only one thing ... vaccines.
I don't know what it will take for some to break free of their illogical bias and engage their brains and their memory and observe what is right in front of them .... stop being a sheep and be a sentient being.
Read up on propaganda and learn to recognize it. Maybe the people you think are conspiracy theorists are just better at recognizing propaganda.
We are totally inundated by propaganda now days .... a quick into to some of the techniques ..... and maybe will see that some on here are using some of these techniques.