Within the video above, Alexander Stockton, a producer on the Opinion Video crew, explores two of the primary causes the variety of Covid instances is hovering as soon as once more in the USA: vaccine hesitancy and refusal.
“It’s laborious to look at the pandemic drag on as Individuals refuse the vaccine within the identify of freedom,” he says.
In search of understanding, Mr. Stockton travels to Mountain House, Ark., within the Ozarks, a area with galloping contagion and — not unrelated — abysmal vaccination charges.
He finds {that a} vary of emotions and beliefs underpins the low charges — together with concern, skepticism and a libertarian pressure of defiance.
This doubt even extends to the employees at a regional hospital, the place about half of the medical personnel usually are not vaccinated — even whereas the intensive care unit is crowded with unvaccinated Covid sufferers combating for his or her lives.
Mountain House — like the USA as a complete — is caught in a tug of conflict between personal liberty and public well being. However Mr. Stockton means that until authorities upholds its responsibility to guard Individuals, preserving the widespread good in thoughts, this can be a battle with no finish.
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Hi, I'm Lucy, one of the producers with Opinion Video who made this film. I'd love to know your thoughts on the video, and what public officials and communities could do to convince more people to get vaccinated. Leave your comments below and I'll do my best to respond!
As my Grandad used to say ' THERE'S NOWT AS THICK AS FOLK'
If we are sharing people who are dying and unvaccinated, we should share about the ones who got the vaccine and still died. The bias coverage is unfair.
If they are saying that it is personal choice or you don’t have to do anything just because you’re told to, then the girl getting her vaccine should not have been made to feel it was wrong by her mother as this meant she is doing to her daughter what she says the government are doing to her.
Freedom of choice, just because you don’t want the vaccine don’t stop your kids getting it or make them feel bad about getting it.
So sad. I don’t blame these people. They’re naive, scared and in many respects incapable of looking after themselves. They’re infantile. I do however blame those power hungry bad faith actors: the politicians, the basement dwelling anti-vaccine propagators, the foreign troll farms, the Facebook attention seeking moms, anyone who has made a conscious decision to prey upon the vulnerable to assuage their own internal anxiety. Those people are evil. Genuinely evil. They have blood on their hands and must be held to account.
Antibodies don't exist for a disease the body hasn't gotten yet. These losers learned one big word and now they're using it everywhere.
Check your country adverse reactions report and see why people might be hesitant, people die from that as well 🤷🏽♀️
It all comes down to each person's individual choice. Without that choice, you are no longer a free citizen, you're nothing more than a subject of tyranny. Apparently democracy and tyranny are becoming mutually inclusive.
For me the most important of all is to keep our natural body immune system healthy..Its our personal choice either you want to be vaccinated or not..I have a 71yr old sister who got covid 2 x already and was able to recovered..She have no health issues and no vices.and not vaccinated. .I thank God that she got a good natural immune system and that she recovered..
The medications that cure are blocked by corrupt medical people, so stop blaming the unvaxxed.
Thousands of people have died from the vaccine. Why do hospitals refuse to treat people with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin which are proven to work and why don’t doctors tell people that vitamin d, zinc and other supplements strengthen your immune system against Covid?
I really don't care what those idiots think.
Vaccinated or not it just like a gamble. Sometime all we can say is "the risk i took was calculated, but man, am i bad at math"
Why get vax when I can take ivermectin, zinc,vit C,D at first sign go illness. Tried and tested for almost 40 years with minimal side effects that are usually related to parasite burden. Works to clear viral load within 8-24 hours. Again WHY would I want to get a vax that could cause serious side effects? Why because it won't be long before tyrant king leaders demand vax passport at every entry even supermarkets.
Oh well. 99.9% recover than have antibodies. Nothing better than own immune system. Propaganda at its finest.
Oh wow lol. All the world travelers guess what your going to be bringing to town ? Covid C 1.2 AKA doomsday variant Look it up Freaks. You have no one but your self's to blame so stop blaming the unvaccinated. you the world travelers are the one's that should be ashamed of your self's and you should be demanding boarder shutdowns for good and lock downs for two years to get your poop together. So what this makes the fourth that you guys will be bringing over here to us ?
WoW The dark and sad music in the background … Is ivermectin even mentioned in this video for early treatments ? No it's all or nothing here. Vaccin or death….
If they died from heart disease or anything else they mark it as Covid. PROVEN FACT
why aren't they being treated at first sign of illness with ivermectin? Thats Medical malpractice, dereliction of duty etc. Someone has to pay.
It's the world travelers that are killing the people in the USA.
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GREAT video! Here are some ideas for cutting through the anti-vax clutter:
1. Remind the anti-vaxxers those who sow discord and vaccine skepticism in conservative governance and media have themselves all been vaccinated (e.g. Gov Greg Abbott, Gov Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, etc.). Think about that.
2. Help them understand any media like Fox News or OANN that stirs people up is good for ratings and therefore profit, so news outlets may not have the peoples’ best interest at heart. Same goes for politicians – telling you what you want to hear is a great way to stay in power. However, the CDC, our country’s expert in infectious disease, is non-profit and politically neutral. We can and should trust them.
3. You could also pose this question: if this were the 1950s and this was the polio vaccine would you get it? Well COVID is way worse than polio. All the more reason to get vaccinated, especially now that Pfizer has full FDA approval (emergency use authorization is over) and data showing safety.
Thank you for your great work.
Propaganda… lying, scheming propaganda pure and simple…
It's just keep reminding me that freedom doesn't come free! Yep, somebody pay for theirs lives.
The majority of the very sick and dying: fat people. I don't see any ny times opinion pieces on that or interviews with the hundreds of thousands of people who had a mild flu version of covid.
The fear campaign won't work.
Focusing on ones own "right to choose" ignores other peoples "right to avoid harm". This isn't the libertarian non-aggression principle, it's borderline solipsism.
Having said that; one shouldn't attempt to parse the nature of viral infections through ones political position. The virus doesn't care about human rights or individualism, it is a communicable disease, that spreads through populations – infecting, blindly replicating and killing – that's the reality.
How can you be upset with people for not trusting the government and the WHO and CDC ??? They don’t have a very good track record when it comes to honesty and transparency. They have made decisions in the past that greatly benefited them and not the people . It’s only natural for people to suspect they may be doing it again . Freedom in America also looks like Big corporations like Pharma and Tech and Food and Oil are taking over our natural resources and creating Faldo states of emergencies so THEY can break the law and violate Human Rights , to Line their pockets. When Freedom of speech and the Nuremberg code are being made out to be selfish and dangerous …you have propaganda , NOT SCIENCE.
The government isn’t forcing anyone that’s the funny thing we lucky we aren’t in a dictatorship where if the government really wanted they can round everyone up by gun point and then really force them to take the vaccine 😒😒
It's inevitable that some are confused and misinformed about vaccination. Personally I don't understand how it's an invasion of personal "freedom", but I guess there's room for differences of opinion. But when they're in hospital and STILL double-down on being anti-vaccination, then switch off life support and give it to someone who believes they need help. They die knowing they did it for freedom.
Propaganda. Pure and simple.
I'm watching this for the same reason you watch a trainwreck. I'm not American, it's just something I do to feel better, because there's no fixing the levels of stupidity you have there because you allow lying and racism as a part of your public discourse. In other countries we have laws to prevent that. So do you, but you don't enforce them in a partial manner, you only enforce them on people of minority ethnicity in your country.
Libel and racism are illegal, because they're defamatory and invite retaliation. You used to have a phrase over there. The freedom to swing your fist ends where the others nose begins. You can look it up, but it comes from a movement where like in the UK, you were free to self harm. but what if that self harm also harms your family, like with drinking?
The reason why smoking in public was banned in the UK was when the scientific link with passive smoking was proven. It's called the harm principle, and it limits personal freedom. You also have that, but don't enforce it, because you are not a nation of laws, perhaps you never were, but certainly not now.
You deserve everything you get. Don't mouth words at us, like "freedom" or "common sense" when you clearly don't have any there. We watch this and lose more and more respect for you. Harming others is not freedom, it never was. I love the conflated argument about governments protecting us when it's just the harm principle. Your freedoms do not trammel those of others. We call that common sense, but we're English, we speak English, Thomas Paine, who wrote common sense was born in England and wrote that in England, where the concept was developed.
You guys have never had common sense and especially not now.
What's with deleting comments ? See just shows you lot aren't being honest
MADE IN CHINA
F**k those who made vaccines and mask wearing political. The science has been clear for over a year. History will not judge them kindly. Neither will Darwin.
ignorance kills
The stupidity…. it burns.
What's freedom worth when you're dead?
I think there should be vaccine mandates. And I'm sort of an anti vaxxer but this is a terrible disease and we need to stop it. You don't have a right to endanger other people and you don't have a right to take up all the Hospital beds so others can't get in for emergencies. If not mandates then insurance should refuse to pay your bill if you are unvaccinated and have to be hospitalized
Remove" i" and put "we" then wellness begins..vaccination is not just for an individual it must be for the entire human race.VASUDEVA KUDUMBHAKAM.Watching this after India vaccinated 1 crore in 24 hours..
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