If women are hesitant about the vaccine, it's because the health industry hasn't earned their trust | Arwa Mahdawi

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Women’s health concerns are often dismissed and their health problems are under-researched – no wonder they’re skeptical

Why are women hesitant about getting the coronavirus vaccine? Mike Pence took his sweet time when it came to routinely wearing a mask in public. The vice-president was a lot less hesitant about embracing the coronavirus vaccine, however. On Friday, just a couple of days after the US reported the highest number of new coronavirus cases and the most deaths since the pandemic began, Pence received the vaccine live on television. It must be nice to be protected from your deadly policy failures.

 

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Maybe they shouldn’t place their trust in vag candles.

Maybe they just don't want to take an experimental injection developed is 6 months using technology never tested on humans before where manufacturers have complete indemnity?

Its because of a sexist schoolsystem which let them have far less classes of physics, math and chemistry in school. And now they tend to believe in rubbish like homeopathy or other irrational stuff.

Don’t forget Thalidomide.

The health industry has been making life saving vaccines and medicines for hundreds of years. How has it not earned your trust?

It’s because they are tied to government funding and are inherently political now.

.... what about the thousands of medical professionals who are women who are eagerly lining up for the vaccine? Why aren't they hesitant? To put in it more concisely, why aren't women in the medical field hesitant about the vaccine?

People of colour too. If there is anything the health industry caters to, it's young, white males.

Yet we still have the 'Wellness' industry targeting them with woo, and succeeding.

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