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Do you really think Republicans are not getting vaccinated because they “don’t trust” pharma companies?

Speaking as a Republican who has not gotten vaccinated, yes.

Before COVID vaccines, Republicans on average trusted pharma way more than Democrats. In general, distrust in pharma is the effect, not the cause, of anti-vax sentiment.

I don’t know what’s going on in your specific case. I suspect you are comparing the health risk of vax to not vax, instead of the risk of vax to COVID, which is the comparison you should be making since everyone is going to get omicron eventually, but whatever.

I already got Covid. If you spent a little less time assuming other people's positions (and their motivations), you might find the space to hear them instead.

So it sounds like you didn’t get vaccinated not because you don’t trust pharma but because you already were infected and don’t need the vaccine?

In any event, the risks of the vaccine are still probably much lower than the risks of a second infection, especially if you were infected more than a year ago

Same boat as Andrew. I've already had Omicron. I'm also at a healthy weight, take all recommended supplements and exercise. According to mainstream sources natural immunity is basically the same as the vaccine if not better. The war is over, people just haven't realized it yet.

> On the whole, studies found that the efficacy of infection-induced immunity was about the same as what you’d get from a two-dose mRNA vaccine, and sometimes higher.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-omicron-upended-wha...

Who hasn’t realized it? The country is fully open and other than mask requirements in schools and public transit, there are essentially no restrictions for vaccinated individuals

> no restrictions for vaccinated individuals

We're talking about natural immunity

> The country is fully open and other than mask requirements in schools and public transit, there are essentially no restrictions for vaccinated individuals

Then it isn't open. Until masks and mass testing are gone, the motor that powers the panic is still running hot and this never ends.

As someone who struggled as well to put myself in the mindset and having just finished reading Empire of Pain which documents the Sackler Family and Purdue's responsibility in the opioid epidemic.

It might be worth reading through it to view a mindset that has developed around pharmaceutical companies and doctors in places that were hit the hardest by the opioid epidemic such as mining towns, old industry towns and other rural areas that are predominately Republican.

They may vote Republican, but I think its fair to say that its likely not the image that first comes to your mind when talking about pro-business, well off Republicans.

Horseshoe theory

Far right and far left reach the same behaviors for different reasons

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