Pure speculation of course but i doubt most people even think about the lack of FDA approval, as is hypothesized by the author. I certainly didn't, and i got the vaccine. And i doubt that most people who don't get the vaccine think about that either. I think there are far more guttural reasons why people don't get the vaccine.
I'd agree, except I've read several interviews with people who've refused the vaccine, and the lack of full FDA approval is a common theme. Maybe that's just a mental justification—but maybe not.
There's also this:
> Another issue about the lack of authorization is that many institutions, including the U.S. military, believe they legally cannot or should not mandate a vaccine that is available exclusively under EUA. There turns out, inconveniently, to not really be any case law on this. But I think it’s understandable that most major institutions want to tread cautiously here in the absence of a clear FDA thumbs up.
Anti-vaxxers are going to anti-vax. That’s just what they do.
This is a convenient excuse for now, but they will cheat and retreat when this excuse vaporizes. That’s just what they do.
There comes a point where you have to be concerned more for the welfare of all the people as a whole than the right of any one specific person to choose whether or not to have the vaccine.
Figure out where that point is, and how many millions of people have to die before we get there. Then you can chart from where we are now to that point.
