In a world without government, but where vaccinations are effective1, how would anarchists achieve a near 100% vaccination rate?

1 = i’m trying not to trigger any antivaxxers among us.

Follow up from https://lemmy.ml/post/86422

  • @southerntofu
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    32 years ago

    Horizontal organizing. Anarchism is not opposed to organization, but opposed to domination, whether through organization (formal hierarchy) or through interpersonal relationships.

    It’s worth noting, that in an anarchist society, where the scientific establishment would work for the people (not private corporations), there would certainly be more trust from the general public. As you can see from current societies living by (some variations of) anarchist principles, such as the Zapatistas caracoles or the Rojava commune, some resources may lack but there is a general understanding that vaccines are good and some organization to distribute them.

    Anti-vaxxing mostly emerges from wide mistrust in the pharmaceutical industry [0], in the authorities and non-profit industrial complex [1], and from an individualistic society where you are not accountable to your fellow community members.

    To be clear, i’m for widespread vaccination. I just don’t think controls help make it more acceptable to people. I agree with the sentiments of older people calling on the youth to refuse their (old people) wellbeing as an excuse for more social control, but at the same time i feel like we should care more for the elderly and the fragile, as is more common in self-organized communities than in modern society where we are just “numbers” in spreadsheets.

    [0] And for good reason, these people have shown time and time again that they’re here to screw us over.

    [1] See for example the fake vaccination campaigns used to track down Ben Laden.

    • @BlinkyOP
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      • @southerntofu
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        22 years ago

        I guess we’re not talking about the antivaxxers who think the covid vaccinations are satanic or that it’s some kind of jewish conspiracy :p

        Yeah i’m talking about those. Those, at least the ones i know, are usually working class folks who don’t have higher education to understand the science behind it, and don’t know anyone from those medical circles due to class segregation (there’s no doctor living in my neighborhood). All they see about science is the bad stuff that directly affects them negatively, and the lies of the industry to protect their interests…

        Their “rationalization” of the problem is completely wrong (those damn freemason/illuminati satanic child abusers) but the evaluation of the symptom isn’t, so i can’t help but think that in a free society such things would not (or not so much) exist.