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jquaint 3 hours ago

Unfortunately, one of the only things that is proven to convince vaccine skeptics is when someone from their community dies of a preventable illness.

This is a great book on this topic: https://www.amazon.com/Anti-vaxxers-How-Challenge-Misinforme...

tedd4u 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Also, what's the overlap here between people who believe a) the unborn have a "right to life" (or forced birth as some others call it, where the parent has no choice but to take the pregnancy to term and give birth), and b) those who think the parents have every right to decide not to vaccinate their children? If you believe (a), shouldn't you believe (not b)? And if you believe (b), shouldn't you believe (not a)?

Esophagus4 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Another thing that seemed to work is the unvaccinated getting sick themselves.

2/3 of the unvaccinated COVID patients who were admitted to hospital regretted their decision, declared they would promote the vaccine post-discharge, and declared they would get it post-discharge.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8950102/

cogman10 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It seems like even that's not good enough. I have a few skeptics in my family and have had family members die from covid.

tedd4u 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

For example:

Parents of Texas child who died of measles stand by decision to not vaccinate

https://abc13.com/post/texas-measles-death-parents-child-die...

CrossVR 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For a lot of people these aren't rational beliefs, they're beliefs based on appeals to emotion. They will only rationally re-evaluate those beliefs if you change the kind of media they consume.