We should really make anti-vaxers walk through a cemetery with deaths from the last 50-100 years vs one from the last 100-200 years and note the differences in dead children/infants.
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Isn't this just a lengthy explanation for suvivorship bias?
Not really. Survivorship bias is saying "measles aren't that bad, both my parents had it as kids". Because if either of you parents had died from measles then you obviously wouldn't be able to make that statement. Because you wouldn't exist.
I guess it's more of a recency bias? Maybe? Or incompleteness fallacy?
Except they did, COVID. That first year saw quite a lot of death. Granted, the experience difference between healthcare and people hunkering down at home would be miles apart.
There would have to be a disconnect there, with the visitor bans. Necessary, but it may have contributed to the fallout of skepticism and conspiracy theory.
You see a loved one go in, get some screen time with them in a hospital bed, maybe, then a phone call from a nurse or doctor telling you your loved one is dead, no you can’t come in, the body will be delivered to the funeral home, do you have one picked out?. Then you see a body at the funeral home. No experience, no visual of real time decline in between, a black hole of time between alive and this dead body in a strange funeral home.
Denial is part of grief. You could even say it’s a normal part of grief. Combine that with the black hole of time between alive and dead, sprinkle with personal tendencies to conspiracy theories, and you have yourself a fake illness.
In addition, other people hunkering at home with nothing but time, screaming into the void in their grief, add fuel to the notion.
I guess COVID doesn’t count. I can only add partial sarcasm to that sentence.
So, we're at the "good times create weak men" stage
It's really on the developed, privileged richer countries that there are significant number of anti-vaxxers. But in the developing ones, especially the global south, they overwhelmingly believe in vaccines because these countries are in the tropical who have to deal with nastier and frequent diseases than those in the colder global north where diseases are more or less subdued by colder climate.
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You know what, let them fucking die. Weed out the stupid.
I'd be very tempted to let karma sort it out, if this chaos only affected people guilty of spreading lies.
Fill every 100th vaccine with concentrated poison, and make up a Hunger Games-esque human sacrifice religion for it.
Those opposing the ~~vaccines~~ sacrifices will be ~~overwhelmingly loud~~ a tiny minority.