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   “Your refusal has cost all of us,” President Joe Biden said to   
   unvaccinated people last week, as he announced a new COVID-   
   vaccine mandate for all workers at private companies with more   
   than 100 employees. The vaccinated, he said, are angry and   
   frustrated with the nearly 80 million people who still haven’t   
   received a vaccine, and their patience “is wearing thin.”   
      
   He’s not wrong about that. For people who understand that   
   widespread vaccination is our best strategy for beating the   
   pandemic, the 25 percent of Americans who still haven’t received   
   a single shot are a barrier to freedom. Their exasperation is   
   warranted.   
      
   But bullying the unvaccinated into getting their shots isn’t   
   going to work in the long run.   
      
   Read: America is getting unvaccinated people all wrong   
      
   Yes, vaccine mandates increase vaccination rates. The White   
   House reported 4 million more first doses in August than in   
   July, after Biden announced his first mandate, for federal   
   workers. And the number of shots administered daily jumped 80   
   percent from mid-July to the end of August. But the way the   
   mandates are being presented is driving a wedge between the   
   vaccinated and the unvaccinated. If the goal is to inoculate   
   enough people to reach herd immunity, this approach may   
   eventually backfire.   
      
   “If you get into these scenarios where you start pitting one   
   group against another, you create tension, you create   
   resistance,” says Simon Bacon, a behavioral scientist at   
   Concordia University, in Montreal. “What you really need to do   
   is totally deflate that.”   
      
   Bacon is a principal investigator of iCARE, an ongoing   
   international study of attitudes toward COVID-19 public-health   
   policies. In a small, recent survey, 30 percent of respondents   
   (which included unvaccinated and partially or fully vaccinated   
   people) said that introducing a vaccine passport would make them   
   more likely to get vaccinated. Sixty-three percent said that it   
   would have no impact, and 4 percent said that it would make them   
   less likely to get a shot. These data are preliminary, but they   
   point to the polarizing potential of passports. Like vaccine   
   mandates, vaccine passports can be considered “coercive” methods   
   for increasing vaccination rates. Neither addresses the key   
   reasons people are hesitant. “If you’re worried about safety and   
   efficacy, a vaccine passport or lottery doesn’t affect that,”   
   Bacon told me. This was one concern raised about Israel’s “green   
   pass” vaccine passport, which, after it was rolled out in   
   February, had at best a minimal impact on vaccine uptake. It was   
   discontinued in June. (The program was partially reinstated in   
   late July in response to the Delta surge.)   
      
   It’s important to differentiate between the vaccine hesitant,   
   who are on the fence for legitimate reasons, and the vaccine   
   resistant, who flat-out don’t support vaccines. By one estimate,   
   8 percent of the U.S. population consistently identifies as anti-   
   vaxxers. Bacon said there’s no use trying to persuade them. It’s   
   the former group we should be careful not to push away with   
   divisive policies, because they are key to getting the pandemic   
   under control.   
      
   Be like that stupid fuck Gavin Newsom in California.  Order a   
   mask mandate when it's proven masks don't do shit.  Everyone is   
   ignoring him anyway.   
      
   https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/persuade-   
   unvaccinated-protect-unvaccinated/620091/   
      
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