Why are Americans so reluctant to have the Covid vaccine?
Col
Several reasons, none of them very good.
1. When you tell a USA person s/he HAS to do something, there will be an automatic reluctance along the lines of "This is a free country." It is a knee-jerk reaction
2. There is, within the living memory of USA citizens, a series of experiments involving forced inoculations at the Tuskegee Institute and performed along racial lines. This "forced to get vaccine" stuff brings back some pretty horrific memories thus leading to a very negative attitude.
3. Because the Liberals are pushing for it, there is an automatic (again, almost knee-jerk) Conservative reaction against it.
4. There is a flood of misinformation on the Internet promulgated by a bunch of flaming idiots who think they sound smart by contradicting experts. I guess they want the attention associated with controversy.
5. There is a small religious twist in that some religions are anti-vaccine because they believe that healing only comes through Jesus. Never mind the fact that religious people worked on making this vaccine and many religions DO bless it.
6. There is a small group that sees that a few dozen people had seriously adverse reactions to the vaccine and died. Somehow that outweighs the few hundred THOUSAND people who died because they were not vaccinated.
Col, to be perfectly honest, I am as baffled as you are on this one, even though I know SOME of the reasons. But I think the final answer has to be that our system allows you to end your life through stupidity if you want to.