Attitude of autonomy, resistance to vaccination against COVID-19 or social irresponsibility? [Spanish]

ABSTRACT

Individual responsibility implies horizontality of participation in the formulation of small models of self-care and local decision-making of what and how to do for prevention, however, in addition to the deployment of education and social communication formulas that provide important tools so that each citizen knows what humanity is facing and to generate shared responsibilities (Rios, 2020), in a practical sense, in a certain percentage of citizens, it has been possible to observe the abandonment of elementary aspects of social coexistence in times of pandemic. This topic has raised interesting controversies that take up a set of valid questions. The present work takes as its starting point two questions to which it does not attempt to answer, but rather fulfill a guiding function for the arguments presented here Why are there human groups that do not consciously act on the global call for vaccination? Why do human groups persist in dispensing with biosafety measures, not abiding by health guidelines? Our concern when carrying out this analysis arose from understanding that, as is the case in various parts of the world, the Ecuadorian provinces with similar community mitigation measures presented very different trends in infection rates. As far as we know, there is no epidemiological model that can help us understand this phenomenon.