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Ms Berejiklian: 'Can you please not get yourself worked up again because all you do is shout at me sometimes.'
>Congress must confirm a new vice chief with a hearing and a vote. But President Joe Biden has been slow to name a nominee even amid new and growing geo-political threats such as China's recent test of a hypersonic missile, which Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley called a near Sputnik moment in a Bloomberg interview.
"I don't believe it's reasonable to read this memo as chilling anyone's rights," said Garland.
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/10/28/covid19-vaccine-hesitancy-invincible-study/4281635425646/
Those who feel 'invincible' less willing to get COVID-19 vaccine, study finds
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258432
Invincibility threatens vaccination intentions during a pandemic
Some people feel they are invincible to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19). They believe that being infected with COVID-19 would not be a serious threat to their health. While these people may or may not be correct in their personal risk assessment, we find that such perceived invincibility may undermine community efforts to achieve herd immunity. Multi-level analysis of survey respondents across 51 countries finds that perceived invincibility from COVID-19 is negatively associated with believing there is a need to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in one’s community (n = 218,956) and one’s willingness to inoculate against the disease (n = 71,148). These effects are most pronounced among individuals from countries lower in cultural collectivism (e.g., USA, UK, Canada) and highlight the need to consider the interplay of individual and cultural factors in our efforts to understand, predict, and promote preventative health behavior during a pandemic.
Building on cultural dimensions theory , we find that in collectivistic cultures, which value interdependence and collective wellbeing, perceived invincibility is less threatening to prosocial concern and vaccination intentions. However, in less collectivistic cultures, which value personal freedoms and autonomy, perceived invincibility may threaten community efforts to suppress a pandemic. Prior commentary has alluded to this relationship, noting that perceived invincibility in developed countries, such as the U.S., is a potential threat to achieving the collective preventative behavior necessary to suppress COVID-19 [5, 29]. The present research provides initial empirical evidence of this relationship at global scale.
https://psyarxiv.com/65xmg/
https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-020-00850-2
>in collectivistic cultures, perceived invincibility is less threatening to prosocial concern and vaccination intentions. However, in less collectivistic cultures, which value personal freedoms and autonomy, perceived invincibility may threaten community efforts to suppress a pandemic.
>less collectivistic cultures, which value personal freedoms and autonomy
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