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In many cases, temporal inconsistency is what prevents us from moving from thought to action. However, in the specific example of vaccination, it is difficult to believe that temporal inconsistency alone is the reason why people often delay the decision despite being fully aware of the benefits of vaccination. . When people continuously delay vaccinating their children, they must constantly fool themselves. Not only do they have to want to go to the vaccination camp next month instead of today, they also have to believe that they will actually go there next month. We must be somewhat naive in believing that we can do the right thing in the future. But if parents truly believe in the benefits of vaccination, they won't be able to fool themselves month after month, pretending to do it next month until the end of the second period. year, so your child's vaccination will be late. Later in this book, we will see how poor people try to force themselves to be frugal, and this requires a lot of complicated financial considerations. If they truly believed vaccination was as great as the WHO advises, maybe they would have found a way to overcome their habit of procrastination. So it is likely that they are hesitant because they underestimate the benefits of vaccination.