Vaccines: Low trust in vaccination 'a global crisis'

[John 6IX Breezy]

A flu shot IS a vaccine, no different in function or purpose than a vaccine for smallpox or measles.  The trouble with a flu vaccine is that there are numerous influenza viruses and they mutate with all the speed of a hungry cheetah. But even if a particular flu virus you get isn't the one you've been vaccinated against, your symptoms are likely to be shorter lived and less severe.

I think the results of the survey are likely pretty close to correct.  There is a huge amount of discredited disinformation about vaccines.

Boru

I see, then I think it could have been a confounding variable depending on how they worded their survey. From what I've experienced, the average person is suspicious of flu shots, thinks it gives you the flu instead of preventing it, and typically doesn't bother getting it.

If you lump flu shots with childhood vaccines in the same survey, the results may be exaggerated.

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Two completely different topics.

They don't seem completely different to me. Both vaccines and antibiotics were major breakthroughs in the fight against diseases. Antibiotics are becoming increasingly and dangerously ineffective due to resistance, but the public eye is on vaccines because it loves fringe controversies: antivaxxers, flat-earthers, etc.

I also think antivaxx conversations thrive because we love proving others wrong and calling them "stupid" (e.g. onlinebiker). But it's not entirely clear what to do about resistance; we're all "stupid" in that regard, so we go back to vaccines.