Study: Vaccine Risk Awareness Tied to Concern Over Moral Concerns Over "Purity"

Study finds that personal moral values, not classic "conservative" and "liberal" ideology, is associated with vaccine uptake. Association with "purity" implies "Vaccine Risk Aware" is a better label.

This study in the journal American Psychologist -

Reimer, N.K., et al. (2022) Moral values predict county-level COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States. American Psychologist. doi.org/10.1037/amp0001020.

utterly shreds the standard tropes about “antivaxxers”.

The study authors combined data on self-reported moral concerns (106,465 people) with county-level data on vaccination rates, structural barriers to vaccination, religiosity, and political behavior (3,106 counties).

Using geospatial models to estimate vaccination rates in a cross-section of time when vaccines had been widely available in the United States for several months, they compare the relative importance of moral values and other factors in predicting vaccination rates.

Surprise, surprise: individualism and concern over purity (bodily integrity) were associated with refusal to consent to experimental vaccines.

Further, the “party lines” that separated regions of high willingness to be experimented upon and jab refusal did not follow traditional “liberal”/“conservative” political lines.

The study authors found evidence that moral concerns about Fairness, Loyalty, and Purity, but neither Care nor valuing deference to Authority were associated with county-level vaccination rates. When race was adjusted for, Authority was associated with vaccine acceptance.

I can see the abuses now: “Anti-vaxxers are unfair, are not loyal and don’t care”…

Except that’s not what the study found.

The authors wrote:

“Authority centers around deference to authority and social order within a hierarchical structure.”

According to study-author Morteza Dehghani, associate professor of psychology and computer science at USC Dornsife:

“The (vaccine-risk aware) anti-vaxxers tend to be not high on loyalty, but high on purity. These include conservatives who are low on loyalty, and also liberals who tend to prioritize purity concerns, most likely focusing on bodily aspects of purity contamination”. (Source)

I know a ton of vaccine-risk aware conservatives and liberals alike who value loyalty to the point of wanting to defend their families, their communities, and their countries against Pharma - and they dislike deference to false authority. Without any hint of irony, the authors suggest that messaging about ingroup protection might help increase vaccination rates in counties with low experimental jab uptake.

We can expect some messaging about how vaccination against COVID-19 is the best way to protect your loved ones; oh, wait, they already tried that, but the science shows that even with data fudging using PCR cycle thresholds and misclassification as single-jabbed persons as “unvaccinated”, the vaccines do not protect against the spread of COVID-19, nor do they reduce hospitalization.

As long as public health believes that their problem is messaging, they will simply continue to produce more and more vaccine risk awareness. This is because, regrettably, more and more people will experience the realities of myocarditis, blood clots, and unexplained sudden deaths in adults.

And more and more people will continue to learn what a colossal, catastrophic disaster the COVID-19 shots program has been - due to Science.

Science that that done in this study from Japan that shows that vaccine-induced disease enhancement is real, just as Dr. Jacque Fantini modeled, and just as so many warned about (and provided data on).

I can see how, if an injection makes you more susceptible to disease, increased risk of recurring infection, and increased risk of hospitalization compared to people with natural immunity, one might be inclined to avoid the jab on “purity”.

When I suggested that we adopt the moniker “vaccine risk aware”, many people thought that was more accurate than “anti-vaxxer”. Because if I’m vaccine risk aware, and you’re not, then one of us knows something the other does not yet know.

Regarding increased risk of disease following COVID-19 jab, you can watch Dr. Bean break the study down the study for you. He does such a great job breaking down this study

Reevaluation of antibody-dependent enhancement of infection in anti-SARS-CoV-2 therapeutic antibodies and mRNA-vaccine antisera using FcR- and ACE2-positive cells https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-19993-w

and shows you why vaccine-induced antibodies that might neutralize Wuhan strain now appear to enhance cellular entry by current strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, just as Dr. Fantini showed would happen in his computational molecular models.