Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government’s deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine. It’s already helped millions of Cubans, and it’s poised to help millions more around the world.
Both AstraZeneca and J&j are viral vector based (not mRNA). The antivax nerds don't give a shit. Novavax is very effective subunit vaccine (like the hep b vax) that should be approved in Canada/America soon and it will be ignored by the antivax losers.
I do think its funny the media did such a shit job explaining there were options when the "mRNA is changing my dna to become a child eating demon" antivax talking points were very popular.
There's no logic to peoples thinking on this. Elderly people are sometimes easier to get through to, just because they might have some kind of societal memory of Polio, people they may have met affected by it, and the successful vaccination campaign..
They also are more likely to have lost a large number of friends to the virus already
True. They seem fine with that in my experience tbh, weird as it may seem. If a death isn't in their immediate circle, well....they were old + it was going to happen anyway, or something.
I brought up the polio because some elderly religious conservatives I spoke to, with a small social circle and a literal interpretation of youtube clips, decided that all vaccines, ever, have been bad. Based on the messaging they have been receiving the last 10 years, this is probably a logical position.
When I reminded them of the people they knew in their youth affected by polio, and how the polio vaccine saved lives, they had literally blanked it out and didn't want to accept that the polio vaccine was good. They could barely accept that any historical vaccine was good.
Watching that dissonance play out live on someone's face...not good.