Needle Points - Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccine, and what we can do about it

by Norman Doidge

Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it. It gives a history about immunisations, the successes and fails before discussing specifically what has happened with the COVID 19 Vaccine

38 pages, ebook

First published October 1, 2021

About the author

Norman Doidge, M.D., is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, author, essayist and poet.

He is on the Research Faculty at Columbia University’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, in New York, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry.

He is a native of Toronto.

Reviews

[Evan Micheals · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jordan Peterson wanted this book to become more well known, so he had Norman Doidge read this as an episode on his Podcast. It was a sober and even handed handling of the COVID pandemic and why a significant portion of our fellow citizens are hesitant to accept it. It shows the justifiable reasons why the Citizenship and the Leadership seem to have a deep mistrust of one another. It speaks to deeper issues within our society and how the pandemic has been worse than it need have been, based on our shared response to the pandemic caused by the (justifiable) mistrust. It speaks to the importance of truth as a basis to build our society upon. It has been shown all to often our leaders have not trusted us with the truth and have been shown to have lied to the citizenship.
COVID and our reaction to it is a symptom of something we must all address in our society, or risk deeper peril.

[Jeremy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reminds me of Matt Taibbi. In a nostalgic way it's nice that the written word retains its hold on a degree of sanity. A lovely sum-up of why so many people are sceptical and lack trust in so many institutions, and some lovely balancing as it goes.

I've kept mostly out of the news for these last few years (mostly just for my mental health) but this was a sometimes depressing, sometimes uplifting piece about what's been going on. All I can say is that I'm glad I kept out of the news for two years.

[Iain Hamill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nice summary of some of the nonsense of the last few years. Good to hear it in the author's voice. (Via the Jordan Peterson podcast).