So the people they went out of their way to alienate, persecute and isolate from society feel alienated, persecuted and isolated from society.

Who funds research like this? Like for real. I know money is fake, but who just burns resources conducting a "study" for a question you could have answered by a ten year old? It would cost me a twenty dollar Fortnite fun bucks card to get this question conclusively answered at an elementary school.

This isn't as bad as you think, it's a nature paper. Hell, but for a few comments in the discussion, I was about to call it good.

It's not just what the title of this summary article says, go read the full thing and see what it says, its actually looking far more at 'how much you identify with either being vaccinated or unvaccinated, what factors influence this, and then what that means for behaviour'. It's not just whether these people are vaccinated or not, they first measure how much they agree with being proud of it, we're looking for people forming an identify around it. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01469-6

For example, it gives us a nice look at who the 'proud' vaccinated are:

Among the vaccinated, individuals were found to identify more strongly with their vaccination status when they were older (β = 0.19, b = 0.01, CI = [0.01, 0.01]), trusted the government more (β = 0.29, b = 0.17, CI = [0.14, 0.19]), when they reported that people important to them were vaccinated (descriptive norm to be vaccinated; β = 0.10, b = 0.09, CI = [0.04, 0.14]) and, most notably, when they assumed that people important to them thought that one should be vaccinated (injunctive norm to be vaccinated; β = 0.34, b = 0.25, CI = [0.20, 0.30]). VSI was also stronger among those who reported searching more frequently for COVID-19-related information (β = 0.21, b = 0.14, CI = [0.11, 0.17]). Left-wing voters identified less with being vaccinated than centrists (b = −0.10, CI = [−0.21, 0.00]) and the same was true for right-wing voters (b = −0.30, CI = [−0.42, −0.12]) and non-voters (b = −0.33, CI = [−0.43,−0.23]).

Ok of course, people who listen to the mainstream news are more likely to identify with being poisoned vaxxed up, but this tells us how much, and there is a surprise or two there, with the self-described centrists identifying more with it than the left, its also more of a boomer karen thing than a gen z or millenial thing, being associated with age. Good info to know too, and not necessarily intuitive. Remember this isn't measuring who is and isn't vaxxed, its who is out there forming an identity around being vaxxed (and then acting on it, as we'll see later)

The fact that those who identify strongly with being unvaxxed about it feel more isolated isn't the finding from this, its one of the expected and less interesting ones, except that we can now begin to look at exactly how much of that sentiment there is.*

They also took 3 snapshots of people at different times, and so we can look at what happened to change their minds.

Read further down, they even played a little game to determine if the perceptions of being persecuted by the vaxxed were perhaps justified:

To investigate whether perceived discrimination had any factual basis, participants were asked to play two dictator games. They were asked to distribute €100 between themselves and a vaccinated person (game 1) or an unvaccinated person (game 2, randomized order). Ingroup preference was measured as the difference between the distributed amounts and indicated the strength of discrimination. The games were conducted in December 2021 and repeated in February and July 2022. At all three timepoints, the average ingroup preference of vaccinated individuals (December 2021: M = €18.40, s.d. = €29.80) was higher compared to unvaccinated participants (M = €7.37, s.d. = €23.90, t(4,981.00) = 14.86, P < 0.001, d = 0.41, CI = [0.35, 0.47]). While vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals granted comparable amounts to ingroup members (December 2021: Mvaccinated = €48.06, s.d.vaccinated = €23.83, Munvaccinated = €45.93, s.d.unvaccinated = €25.11, t(4,151.40) = 3.07, P = 0.002, d = 0.09, CI = [0.03, 014]), vaccinated participants gave considerably less money to outgroup members than did unvaccinated individuals (Mvaccinated = €29.66, s.d.vaccinated = €26.55, Munvaccinated = €38.56, s.d.unvaccinated = €25.30, t(4,478.10) = 12.23, P < 0.001, d = 0.34, CI = [0.28, 0.40]). Furthermore, ingroup preference among the unvaccinated increased with VSI and this effect was even stronger among vaccinated individuals (Fig. 1d). Thus, the more vaccinated people identified with being vaccinated, the more they discriminated against unvaccinated players. The unvaccinated also did this but to a smaller extent. The stronger discrimination behaviour of vaccinated individuals matches the finding that perceptions of being discriminated against were reported more frequently by unvaccinated people. This suggests that reports of discrimination are not fiction but fact.

The vaxxed were given money and asked to share, they did not do so with the unvaxxinated, far more than the unvaxxinated did, their ingroup preference is stronger and more severe the stronger they identify with 'being vaxxed'

This is not trash, it has quite a few interesting little nuggets. Ok yes, we all know it's true, but some social scientist has actually gone and tried to prove it (as well as you can in that sort of test) and put some actual numbers on it.

They at the end have an absolutely trash proposal and position on how gov's should respond, absolutely. In their discussion and conclusion (but then, they all seem to be obligated to). To call this entire thing trash is short sighted however. There is some quite useful information in here, the data is on our side and this shows it.

I don't.

If anything I think it's the reverse.. the vaccinated have to virtue signal that they're vaxx'd and bristle at the fact that they might've been not only hoodwinked - but injected themselves with cancer.

It is just correlation, but I bet there will be some causation as well. You are far more likely to go along with the herd if you don't feel socially excluded.

Please, find the social media profiles and email of the person who did this study and POLITELY show their blindness and how cruel and nefarious they are by further ostracizing people who were persecuted by the state and ASK THEM TO APOLOGIZE PUBLICLY for furthering lies to the general population.

Let's start this movement of polite, correct and incisive accountability request to the liars and whores of the state.

Jokes on them: I was already socially excluded, alienated and isolated. Covid just brought that home.

I didn’t really need a “pandemic” to see just how shittily people would treat one another, when given the chance and the motive. I had already seen it, like, forever…

Sure, it revealed an even darker side of some people, which I suppose I wasn’t fully aware of, but really, there were very few people who were “duped” or who turned on me that I was overly surprised by…

Only thing that surprised me was during the months of forced isolation when not one “friend” made contact. That, I admit, was somewhat of a “surprise”.

All of which is to say, people fucking suck. If you can find one person who doesn’t suck, or at least sucks less, and build a life with them? Fantastic. But in general, fuck people. I don’t think we needed this paper to tell us just how badly “the majority” treated the rest of us, these last couple of years…