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VACCINE AFTER EFFECTS MEME SERIES
This requires honest communication and debate with the curious and unsure, which doesn’t begin with personal attacks and insults. A series of videos on TikTok show creators play-acting as patients who get sinister side-effects after taking a COVID-19 vaccine. Another post that was taken down by Facebook was a meme that jokingly implied that the vaccine comes with extreme side effects.
We may never persuade the hardcore anti-vaxxers, but we might have sway over those people that they influence. Advocating for vaccination needs to be based on robust evidence free from perceptions of bias. Ongoing controversies over ‘ sponsorship bias’ in research relating to tobacco, antidepressants and sugar consumption reduce the credibility of research as a whole.
It is of course important to challenge false claims, but it’s just as important to consider how we make those challenges.Īnti-vaxxer memes show a movement strongly characterised by distrust of big business and the scientific claims that underpin vaccines, so we need to acknowledge where the research community has played a role in creating these concerns and address them. To change minds, we need to take a more empathetic approach, considering why people hold a belief and how they see themselves and their opponents. Looking through the memes in this article, it’s clear that the current online discourse between pro- and anti-vaccination campaigners is not productive. Ellissa Bain Wed 14 April 2021 11:02, UK The US had just paused the rollout of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine, and people are reacting with memes on Twitter. For instance, there is a seemingly harmless TikTok meme, best identified as me after I get the COVID-19 vaccine, where people show videos of themselves rhythmically convulsing or barking.
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