How to End Vaccine Hesitancy

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 35 Not gonna lie, the title of this episode of the New Discourses Podcast is a bit of a bait-and-switch, so I hope it doesn't put you off. The thing is, there is a principled reason to be hesitant on the Covid-19 vaccine, and, far from positioning people as "anti-vaxxers" for holding that position, it is perfectly reasonable and needs articulation. Put simply, it's this: people should have to be convinced, not coerced or forced, into accepting a vaccine into their bodies, especially under the conditions presented by Covid-19 and its vaccine. That is, the argument for getting vaccinated needs to be made, not merely assumed, and neither coercion nor force makes that argument. On the contrary, in fact, they diminish the ability to make the argument and thus increase vaccine hesitancy. Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, in which he tries to articulate that principled argument for vaccine hesitancy and thus also the path away from it, should our institutional authorities want to achieve it. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, this is James Lindsay, you are listening to the new discourses podcast
0:25.1	and probably against my better judgment. I want to do a hopefully relatively short episode here
0:32.4	about why I have not yet signed up for the COVID-19 vaccine. So just to be completely forthright,
0:40.0	I'm recording this on the 9th of May, I'm saying forthright because this may end up having to change,
0:45.3	you never know. So I'm recording this on the 9th of May 2021. I do not have the vaccine at present,
0:51.6	I do not intend to get the vaccine at present. I see the walls potentially closing in,
0:58.4	I have a feeling that the airline industry, for example, as private companies will probably end up
1:06.2	beating me in this stand, seeing as my current career trajectory very much involves having to travel
1:13.5	and there's only so much standing against that that I think I'll be able to do, but at present,
1:19.8	I do not have the vaccine and I do not intend it to get the vaccine except if certain conditions
1:25.6	change. I'm not opposed to vaccines in general, I'm not opposed even to this vaccine in specific.
1:34.4	The accusations that I am an anti-vaxer are completely false, they're completely vacuous.
1:41.2	I am in my 40s and I have every single vaccine, a typical person in my age demographic would have,
1:52.8	I don't have the chickenpox vaccine, for example, which most people younger than me might have
1:57.7	because it didn't exist when I got chickenpox. So I got chickenpox the old-fashioned way
2:03.6	by getting sent by my parents to the home of another child who had chickenpox. So we could get it
2:09.6	over with when I was young rather than when I was old. Just as a little aside, if you don't know
2:14.0	that the older you are when you get chickenpox, the worse it is, it's kind of like COVID,
2:19.0	as it turns out. So I got chickenpox, I think when I was seven or eight and I don't remember it being
2:25.4	particularly terrible. My brother was younger and had actually, he has a thing with things at itch.
2:32.4	He had a much harder time, but my neighbor across the street ended up getting chickenpox not
2:38.8	from us. Sometime later, a couple of years later, that's 17 or something like that, and it
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