James Valentine on ABC Sydney this morning with Julie Leask, talking about why the public has gone lukewarm…

James Valentine on ABC Sydney this morning with Julie Leask, talking about why the public has gone lukewarm on vaccinations. Lots of talk of ‘vaccine fatigue’. But the real reason not mentioned, that political leaders deliberately led a relaxation of public health attitudes…/1

…by the public. To win elections, the previous PM wanted to go to an election with a ‘job done’ message on Covid. State Premiers since then have done the same. Also, Valentine noted the large number of texts from listeners in the anti-vax genre, and wondered why. /2

The answer to that one I think isn’t misinformation, the usual explanation. In my childhood people couldn’t care less what was in a vaccine, you went and had them because the professionals you trusted said you should. The politics of our time attacks that core trust in our…/3

…institutions directly. So it’s not that people now have loon views on vaccines, it’s that they have any view at all on them that is the sad thing. Societies who lose trust as social glue don’t survive. This change was led, all change is led. 3/3