A generationIn France, the United States and Germany, the vaccination campaign has lost the necessary momentum Vaccination quota The comprehensive protection of the population has not been achieved. Everyone who has not been vaccinated seems to be fighting for both sides-doubters and supporters. And it’s getting more and more irreconcilable.
In Germany, the strategic changes of the two groups have become obvious. Radical vaccine skeptics are changing: as Bielefeld sociology professor and conflict researcher Andreas Zick has shown, now it’s no longer just spreading false information on the Internet, but More and more decentralized operations have been carried out on the scene. Zike talked about guerrilla tactics. Protests in smaller groups in front of nursing homes and vaccination centers; rhetoric ranges from silent false information to offensive slander against vaccination doctors, vaccination advocates, and vaccinators. Individual vaccinators like Christian Kröner, a general practitioner in Neu-Ulm, are threatened on a large scale and are described as murderers and traitors. The common guerrilla operation enhanced the sense of community. Repeat the same slogans and turn them into perceptual truths—this is the truth effect known by psychology.
Many less radical vaccine skeptics and vaccinators who distance themselves from guerrilla operations and use more objective arguments to support their positions feel desperate. There is increasing pressure on vaccination advocates in politics and business, and the behavior of radical vaccine skeptics is increasingly inclined to use violence, which means that they are less and less understanding and respecting both sides. They usually arouse the anger of citizens due to guerrilla actions, and at the same time they no longer know how to protest their views, and more radical groups will use protests to conduct guerrilla actions.
9.5% never want to get vaccinated
Vaccines are a larger group of people who have not been vaccinated. According to data from the Bonn Institute of Applied Social Sciences, 14.5% of the population aged 18 and over are hesitant people. They have not fundamentally refused to receive the vaccine, but have not yet been vaccinated. On the other hand, about 9.5% of people over 18 plan to never get vaccinated. In the 25 to 34 age group, as many as 20.5% do not want to be vaccinated.
At first, people wanted to use incentives to persuade vaccination advocates to vaccinate, but now more and more restrictions on unvaccinated people are working. Some progress comes from politics.What the Social Democratic Party health experts say KarlauterbachIf the number of coronaviruses in Germany continues to rise and the vaccination rate does not increase significantly, then restrictions on unvaccinated people are inevitable. For cramped, poorly ventilated rooms, Lauterbach called for a transition to the two-G rule, in which only vaccinated and recovered people are allowed to enter, and those who test negative are not allowed to enter. False negative corona antigen tests often occur. Robert Harbeck, the co-leader of the Green Party, predicts that the vaccinated people will regain their basic rights and freedom of life as soon as possible. However, he also advocated that the corona test is still free—contrary to many other vaccination advocates.
The economy may also impose restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated. According to the freedom of contract, the operator of a cafe or movie theater can decide with whom to sign a contract, that is, to whom to provide services. In the General Equal Treatment Act, politics can restrict freedom of contract, but only if there are sufficient reasons-this may not have been given yet.
Germany rarely relies on so-called nudges
The government is now trying to work with the Federal Health Education Center (BZgA) to establish an information balancer for the behavior of radical vaccine skeptics and to win over those who are hesitant to vaccination.Become a common vaccination myth On the BZgA website Retorted with short text blocks, systematically introducing information about different vaccines.
However, compared with other countries, the federal government rarely relies on so-called nudges. In behavioral economics, it describes a decision structure that is more likely to make health-promoting decisions without restricting freedom of choice. For example, easily accessible, non-bureaucratic vaccination options can increase the likelihood of people deciding to vaccinate without depriving them of their choice. Other European countries and the United States more often use boost strategies to convince vaccinators.
