Is Covid Vaccination Hesitancy a Case Study?

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Vaccine hesitancy is a case study in this. People say, well, you'e not been reading stuff, or i heard about people geti seizures or hard attacks from the vaccine. It's like, but have you seen the 600 thousand people statistics that are dead? You know? So you have the, you know, tiny little fear of of faccine a side effacts here, and then you have the massive thing it ust seems like such an obvious comparison. And yet, people just get in the car and they just drive off, no problem. There's no driving hesitancy. But there's this vacine Hesitancy. That might be

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