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• key insight: neoliberalism and failure of collective action

  • neoliberalism's continuous assault on society has striped use off any support system, leaving us to fend for ourselves
  • when polycrisis events occur, it provokes a distrust of any attempt at government intervention
  • this is a sign of things to come when climate chaos will accelerate social breakdown

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Mills, M. C., & Sivelä, J. (2021). Should spreading anti-vaccine misinformation be criminalised? BMJ, 372, n272. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n272

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @MollyJongFast: One of the most powerful conservative celebrities is actively working against vaccinations https://t.co/Kz8hJuLQtK’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 16 June 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1389984427158110216

Juliette Kayyem. (2021, February 15). This is great data about vaccine hesitancy, declining since 2020. There is a difference between the ‘wait and see’ (31%) and the anti-vaxxers (13%). Of ‘wait and see’, 37% are simply at ‘not first’ and want to assess family/friends. In short, vaccinations beget vaccinations. [Tweet]. @juliettekayyem. https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1361462039919607811

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, September 18). RT @MDaware: Pandemics: Where everyone’s actions only affect themselves & their family and never anyone else https://t.co/sTfLb3aikn [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1439292797350080513

John Kerr. (2021, March 22). As in another study, https://t.co/hl7qce6x4t, some messages ⬆️ feeling informed, but weirdly, these were the least informative, raising some Qs about how best to measure and change people’s awareness of the risks & benefits ethically. 7/n https://t.co/HAGeje5afy [Tweet]. @SciComGuy. https://twitter.com/SciComGuy/status/1374040006034096131

ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @MDaware: There’s nothing “natural” about wearing pants and broadcasting monstrous ideas across the globe you ghoul https://t.co/OcVXmeV…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 16 August 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1415103527483895808

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD. (2022, February 7). 1: BA.2 some evidence that it’s even more transmissible than the original omicron which is more transmissible than delta, and so forth. If it takes hold like it did in Denmark it will slow the descent of original omicron here [Tweet]. @PeterHotez. https://twitter.com/PeterHotez/status/1490669166176702466

ReconfigBehSci. (2021, October 13). RT @StevenTDennis: This is 100X the yearly U.S. death toll from measles before we crushed it with vaccines. [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1448333888992858120

Gaba, C. (2022, March 10). My own crude estimate: Vaccine refusal has likely killed 180K - 235K Americans to date [Text]. ACA Signups. https://acasignups.net/22/03/10/my-own-crude-estimate-vaccine-refusal-has-likely-killed-180k-235k-americans-date

Prof. Gavin Yamey MD MPH. (2021, October 14). That awful VAERS preprint, championed by anti-vaxxers Marjorie Taylor Greene & Robert Malone, which argued the vax is more dangerous than Covid, refuses to die The preprint was coauthored by a member of Rational Ground, an extreme Covid denialist group that harasses scientists [Tweet]. @GYamey. https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1448641593150345216

How anti-vaccination websites build audiences and monetize misinformation %. (2021, March 10). First Draft. https://firstdraftnews.org:443/articles/antivaccination-audiences-monetize/

Office for Science and Society. “Don’t Fall for the ‘VAERS Scare’ Tactic.” Accessed June 21, 2021. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-health/dont-fall-vaers-scare-tactic.

Thompson, D. (2021, May 3). Millions Are Saying No to the Vaccines. What Are They Thinking? The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/the-people-who-wont-get-the-vaccine/618765/

Would Covid passports be damaging to public health? | Melinda Mills and Stephen Reicher. (2021, April 7). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/07/covid-passports-good-idea-government-damaging

‘Why wouldn’t I get it?’: The experts leading the battle against COVID anti-vaxxers. (2021, February 7). https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-02-08/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-misinformation-inoculation-theory/13125164

Leask, Julie. ‘Vaccines — Lessons from Three Centuries of Protest’. Nature 585, no. 7826 (21 September 2020): 499–501. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02671-0.

Being an anti-vaxxer makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint.

Fixing any disease that could kill an individual before his/her childbearing age is only helping weaknesses (diseases) propagate in the human populous.

Bizzarri, M., Panebianco, F., & Pin, P. (2020). Is segregating anti-vaxxers a good idea? ArXiv:2007.08523 [Physics, q-Bio, q-Fin]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08523