Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Doctoral School in the Social Sciences (Sociological Sciences), Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland.
Gerontologist. 2021 Nov 15;61(8):1317-1325. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnab094.
In the fall of 2020, it became clear that the initial doses of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine would be limited, and a priority order would be necessary. This article examines the perceptions of old age in the context of establishing a priority order for the COVID-19 vaccine from the perspective of online newspaper commenters. Two research questions are investigated: (a) How do commenters place older people in line for the COVID-19 vaccine? and (b) What frames and factors do commenters use as reasoning for their proposed position of older adults?
This study involves a frame analysis of 440 online comments on an article published by The New York Times on December 1, 2020 about the U.S. recommendations for distributing the coronavirus vaccine.
Older adults were referenced as belonging to one of the 3 groups: older long-term care residents, older workers, and older adults retired and/or isolating at home. Two frames emerged from the data as criteria for prioritization: social contribution and vulnerability. Older commenters themselves frequently stated that they should be deprioritized so that others can be inoculated earlier.
The findings may be interpreted as demonstrative of pervasive ageism throughout the pandemic; older commenters' sacrificial remarks may reflect generativity, internalized ageism, social pressure from online forums, or some combination thereof.
2020 年秋季，很明显，最初的新冠病毒疾病 2019（COVID-19）疫苗剂量将是有限的，因此需要制定一个优先顺序。本文从在线报纸评论者的角度，研究了在制定 COVID-19 疫苗优先顺序的背景下，对老年人的看法。本文调查了两个研究问题：（a）评论者如何将老年人排列在 COVID-19 疫苗接种的队列中？（b）评论者使用哪些框架和因素来为他们提出的老年人立场提供推理？
本研究对 2020 年 12 月 1 日《纽约时报》发表的一篇关于美国分发冠状病毒疫苗建议的文章的 440 条在线评论进行了框架分析。
老年人被归入以下 3 组之一：长期护理院的老年人、老年工作者、退休在家隔离的老年人。数据中出现了两个作为优先排序标准的框架：社会贡献和脆弱性。年长的评论者自己经常表示，他们应该被降级，以便其他人可以更早接种疫苗。
这些发现可以解释为整个大流行期间普遍存在的年龄歧视；年长评论者的牺牲言论可能反映了代际关怀、内在的年龄歧视、来自在线论坛的社会压力，或者是它们的某种组合。
