If needle anxiety would drive vaccine hesitancy we would assume that vaccine hesitancy does not follow any tribal dynamics of tribes that are not about shared needle anxiety but that contain other political agendas. I don’t think that’s what we are seeing.
I do we see people who are generally distrustful of establishment authority to be much more likely to be vaccine-hesitant.
And evidently many people who said they’d “wait and see” before taking the vaccine are still, well, waiting and seeing.
We do see people getting vaccinated who previously weren’t vaccinated in nearly every country. Not as much as we would like but it’s inaccurate to present it as nobody has changed.
If needle anxiety would drive vaccine hesitancy we would assume that vaccine hesitancy does not follow any tribal dynamics of tribes that are not about shared needle anxiety but that contain other political agendas. I don’t think that’s what we are seeing.
I do we see people who are generally distrustful of establishment authority to be much more likely to be vaccine-hesitant.
We do see people getting vaccinated who previously weren’t vaccinated in nearly every country. Not as much as we would like but it’s inaccurate to present it as nobody has changed.
It could be that people with a fear of needles have allied themselves with other groups and thus taken on their views.