Vaccine hesitancy https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/vaccines-konstantin-kisin
My comment to a friend:
Strong piece.
Thanks.
Does it convince you that vaccine hesitancy is justified?
I know that his explanation for it is his gist rather than justification but I still easily think the hesitation is irrational.
In other words, despite all the skilful narrative of rushes to judgment, supposed experts being wrong, media pile ons, elite condescension, outright deceit and hypocritical special pleading, I still have faith in objectively coming to terms with much of what he strings together, from the Covington kid, to Jussie Smollett, to the emptiness in much of the hysteria and fake news about Trump during his presidency—since his defeat he’s gone totally off the deep end, to the vindicating-of-America trial of Chauvin. The latest minor stir is the undermining of the received narrative about Amy Cooper, the Central Park dog walker with now disclosed undisclosed new facts. So my point is, everything he says is so; he gives voice to a deep ubiquitous problem. But still there come with time objective counterweights that allow us in to help navigate the hysteria, the duplicity and the rushes to judgment. They don’t displace or even solve the problem but they reside alongside it, sometimes outweigh it and give us a fighting chance.
And so, while I get some of the reasons for the hesitancy— it’s overdetermined—I continue easily to think it’s irrational.
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