So, my an online american friend said"My mom didn’t want to vaccine vax cuzs autism". Is he joking? I know many people say thing like that but i thought they all were joking?
In my country which is a third world country no one believe shit like that even my Grand mother who is illiterate and religious don’t believe thing like that and knows the benefit of vaccine.
I agree with you that rampant capitalism is the true primary source of distrust, but we’re not going to fix the full distrust without addressing the history as well.
There’s a lot more than my cherry picked example in our history.
We have a history of treating our least privileged society members as lab rats.
Now we’re acting shocked that folks aren’t lining up for a poke in the arm.
Trust must be built, and we clearly don’t have it anymore.
Getting rid of our billionaires is step one, but it won’t magically change hearts and minds and create the missing trust.
My point is that they government itself doesn’t have a spotless history, and so cannot simply say trust me bro. It’s not just privatized healthcare that lost the missing trust.
Getting rid of our billionaires and un-privatizing healthcare is step one. After that, we still need an accountability overhaul, and a ton of patience to rebuild the lost trust.