Non-paywalled copy I guess.
As coronavirus cases resurge across the country, many inoculated Americans are losing patience with vaccine holdouts who, they say, are neglecting a civic duty or clinging to conspiracy theories and misinformation even as new patients arrive in emergency rooms and the nation renews mask...
www.yahoo.com
Anger doesn't help the situation. Half the article is about people being angry. It just promotes a me v them - or right v wrong discussion, which in the current situation is not helpful.
There was some good constructive passages, which I will extract.
On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City ordered that all municipal workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the time schools reopen in mid-September or face weekly testing. Officials in California followed suit hours later with a similar mandate covering all state employees and health care workers.
(My comment: its something Australian officials should consider - if you are unvaccinated in say 2022 and get positive from the routine testing, you need to access personal sick leave (for the 14 days isolation) or go leave without pay and no access to the pandemic financial supports.)
She suggested health insurers link coverage of hospital bills to immunization. “If you choose not to be part of the solution, then you should be accountable for the consequences,” she said.
(My comment: many have suggested Medicare surcharge, but I don't know how that would work for low income families/earners)
Though often seen as a conservative phenomenon [in the US], vaccine hesitancy and refusal occur across the political and cultural spectrum in the United States, and for a variety of reasons. No single argument can address all of these concerns, and changing minds is often a slow, individualized process.
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Rising resentment among the vaccinated may well lead to public support for more coercive requirements, including mandates, but experts warn that punitive measures and social ostracism can backfire, shutting down dialogue and outreach efforts.
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“Anything that reduces the opportunity for honest dialogue and an opportunity for persuasion is not a good thing,” said Stephen Thomas, a professor of health policy and management at University of Maryland School of Public Health. “We are already in isolated, siloed information systems, where people are in their own echo chambers.”
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Gentle persuasion and persistent prodding persuaded Dorrett Denton, a 62-year-old home health aide in Queens, to be vaccinated in February. Her employer urged Denton repeatedly to be immunized, but in the end, it was her doctor who convinced her.
“She says to me: ‘You’ve been coming to me from 1999. How many times did I do surgery on you, and your life was in my hands? You trust me with your life, don’t you?’” Denton recalled.
“I said, ‘Yes, Doctor.’ She said, ‘Well, trust me on this one.’”