An interesting post on Social behavior and the covid pandemic, but the last bit of this quote jumped out at me:
But here’s the thing: what 2010-era sociologist or political scientist would have predicted that a major global pandemic would occur in the next several decades, that an almost miraculous search for an effective vaccine would be successful in an amazingly short period — and that the pandemic and vaccine would become a political issue leading to mass refusal to vaccinate? All global epidemiologists believed the first proposition — that pandemic would occur sometime; some biological researchers thought that vaccine creation could advance quickly; but I can’t think of any respected political scientist or sociologist who would have predicted the massive movement that has emerged against vaccination and the politicization of the spread of the virus.
Social behavior and the covid pandemic – Understanding Society
I can’t think of many social scientists working in vaccination who haven’t been thinking about this for at least a decade.