Don’t Call It a Pandemic of the Stupid
“The inability to access and evaluate quality information can lead to what health researcher Dr. Jessica Jaiswal calls ‘inequality-driven mistrust.’ If you don’t make much money, you may not have reliable internet access or news subscriptions. If you have lower levels of education, it’s harder to make sense of the (often false or misleading) information you find out there. You may be wary of doctors and government officials because of the way they’ve mistreated you in the past, and you may fear you’ll be charged for the shot if you don’t have insurance. Going, say, door-to-door with vaccines solves only one issue of access; if you don’t have trusted sources of information offering good reasons to accept it, you might still refuse a shot.”