IcaroRibeiro said:
Doubt it. Most people understand and believe vaccines are effective, they just don't bother. Antivaxxes (the morons who don't believe vaccines actually works) are actually not the majority of unvaccinated people: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/us/virus-unvaccinated-americans.html Only 37% answered to not believe in vaccines Most of people just feel like they don't need it because they are young, healthy and because they find more bothersome to take a shot in the arms than to fall under the smaller number of odds of getting a severe disease (as most of cases are asymptomatic). There are also ones who understand getting vaccinated as some sort of political statement yikes Ultimately, there isn't any sense of community os responsibility in big societies, this only works in small groups of people. Ultimately people will choose whatever feels more convenient for themselves, people are more afraid of getting an arm sore for a couple of hours (53% answered they are afraid of "side effect") than Covid that's nothing really to be done For instance, overall USA citzens are far more educated than brazilians citzens (USA scored 0.9 in education IDH, Brazil scored 0.69). Yet despite being poorer and starting our vaccination campaign much later we already surpassed the number of vaccinated people with at least one shot and overall numbers are increasingly in a fast pace. So is really education correlated with vaccination rate? I'm forced to disagree |
What kind of education is that measuring?
The lack of social education is what causes this. Patriotism is abound (in the USA) yet only when it comes to outsiders, there is a lack of unity inside and no responsibility for being part of society. Hence the only thinking is about the effects on yourself. That needs to change with education.
Maybe there is a stronger sense of community in Brazil?
It's the same with masks. You mostly wear them to protect others, they're far less effective to protect yourself. But the narrative in NA has to be about your own protection or people don't really bother. It's the same with simple things like cleaning the shopping cart after you're done with it. Now the supermarkets are back to 'do it yourself' mode, I hardly see anyone taking the effort to simply wipe down the cart after use.
Hence I'm glad the kids are back to school. They can get good education through online learning as well, however that lacks all the important parts of living and working together. We're all in this together is something many people tend to forget.
