As others are also noting here, the antivax movement is not all one monolithic concept - and especially people that would get all the childhood vaccines for their kids may not get the COVID ones, or oddly enough DO get those, but somehow are also against all vaccines at the same time as well? So I don’t even know: it’s like it appears more popular in theory than in actual practice?
I wonder if people get the vaccines for their kids out of love, but then out of fear don’t want to admit that in order to avoid standing out against their local crowd.
Ooh this is a good point and kind of applies to my situation. My daughter is massively needle-phobic. When the first covid vaccines were available, we had to physically hold her down (she’s almost 9 now). So I’ve made a deal with her that she has to get all of her scheduled vaccines but I won’t make her get the annual flu/covid vaccines because I just don’t want to have that fight with her. She’s a fighter generally. Meanwhile her brother sucks it up (as do I) and my husband says “Oh I need to get my annual flu vaccine” and then never does it, but I’m not going to parent him about it.
The flu ones in the past made a ton of sense to not bother with, bc they so often guessed wrong what strain might come, and the effects were not so bad. On the other hand, long COVID is no joke, and the H5 bird flu that is affecting egg prices might be deadly (I dunno really though).
As others are also noting here, the antivax movement is not all one monolithic concept - and especially people that would get all the childhood vaccines for their kids may not get the COVID ones, or oddly enough DO get those, but somehow are also against all vaccines at the same time as well? So I don’t even know: it’s like it appears more popular in theory than in actual practice?
I wonder if people get the vaccines for their kids out of love, but then out of fear don’t want to admit that in order to avoid standing out against their local crowd.
Ooh this is a good point and kind of applies to my situation. My daughter is massively needle-phobic. When the first covid vaccines were available, we had to physically hold her down (she’s almost 9 now). So I’ve made a deal with her that she has to get all of her scheduled vaccines but I won’t make her get the annual flu/covid vaccines because I just don’t want to have that fight with her. She’s a fighter generally. Meanwhile her brother sucks it up (as do I) and my husband says “Oh I need to get my annual flu vaccine” and then never does it, but I’m not going to parent him about it.
The flu ones in the past made a ton of sense to not bother with, bc they so often guessed wrong what strain might come, and the effects were not so bad. On the other hand, long COVID is no joke, and the H5 bird flu that is affecting egg prices might be deadly (I dunno really though).