I heard an interesting analysis of the opposition of many in the U.S. to the vaccine on a news commentary show I listen to from Mexico.
The panel on the show believed that "authorities" in the U.S. had painted the vaccine with the same brush as, for example, the polio vaccine: a total cure. In fact, they stated, the vaccine is not a cure, but it reduces dramatically the chances of death and long illness.
But, the panel concluded, many in the U.S. (remember, in Latin America residents of the United States are not "Americans" but "Northamericans" or "Unintedstatsians") saw that the vaccine did not prevent COVID and thus was born the belief that it was ineffective and even a conspiracy.
An interesting sidebar was the comment that, for many decades, international travelers had to carry the yellow vaccine booklet along with their passport or they could not enter most countries. The conclusion was that "in that era" requirements for vaccination were widely respected as most people in the world remembered the effects of yellow fever and other deadly plagues.
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