A friend of mine who lives in Gelsenkirchen, in the Rhur says this :
It seems to me that the least educated, poorest and least accomplished people are spurning vaccine and hence get blamed. I suppose poorly educated people are the most susceptible ones to the anti-vaxx message.
Sadly this is true. Add to that people on the far right.
Depends, if most of your peers are least educated, that's all you're going to see. I think the economically deprived are less likely to trust government, regarding anything, not just vaccines.
Most of my peers are highly educated and remain very sceptical of the vax propaganda. I think this is because the highly educated are much more aware of how little we actually know when we dig into a specific scientific area.
vax hesitancy across education levels follow a U shaped curve, least and most educated are more likely to be hesitant, while the highest educated levels are also least likely to change their opinion.
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/
the highest educated levels are also least likely to change their opinion.
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-education-group-of-all-phds/
The survey took place over 5 months. In four of the five months, the phd group was not the most hesitant, in the last month, may, they were, I suspect unherd used the one plot which confirmed their narrative.just saying ...
Its even worse than that. Its a Facebook user survey so its basically a self selecting internet survey. So statistically worthless. Its in the same category as those "studies" which are some grad student wandering around campus asking whoever stops and talks to them to fill out a questionnaire. And stopping when they have maybe a hundred filled out questionnaires. If that many. The results will have no actual scientific significance as its such a non representative sample group.
At least in the US the actual correlation is socio-economic, race and degree of trust in the MSM. The last being the most important. As there is no longer any center or right of center MSM any more in the US only those with left or left of center politics believe the MSM can be trusted. That is why the MSM in the US have the lowest trust rating of any Western county. Even with Independent voters. A big change for 30 or 40 years ago when the MSM in the US was still very much center or center right. And still very much trusted by all political hues.
And in the US, like every other Western country, belief in the official government narrative regarding the COVID and the vaccines is directly correlated to people exposure to and belief in the national MSM. In the case of the UK this being basically the BBC. So in France, for example, where there is no complete dominance of broadcast news media like there is with the BBC in the UK, a larger percentage of the population are skeptical of the current mass hysteria.
