We are talking about a community that has community evaluation of technology and only uses technology when the community evaluates the tech to be good for the social fabric of the community.
It’s not that they distrust mainstream medicine in particular but that general distrust of authorities leads to distrust of vaccination as well.
While it that case it’s more historical distrust, it’s probably similar to the distrust you get prevent churches from gathering during lockdowns because of bad public health policy and afterwards discover that the congregation doesn’t trust you anymore on vaccines.
We are talking about a community that has community evaluation of technology and only uses technology when the community evaluates the tech to be good for the social fabric of the community.
I’m not sure whether “out of conviction” is a very good category. https://globalnews.ca/news/11214661/ont-measles-mennonite/ does suggest that historic distrust in authorities is a key factor.
It’s not that they distrust mainstream medicine in particular but that general distrust of authorities leads to distrust of vaccination as well.
While it that case it’s more historical distrust, it’s probably similar to the distrust you get prevent churches from gathering during lockdowns because of bad public health policy and afterwards discover that the congregation doesn’t trust you anymore on vaccines.