tech37 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 8:35 am
a fan wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:53 pm
RedFromMI wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:22 am
Half Of Unvaccinated Workers Say They’d Rather Quit Than Get A Shot – But Real-World Data Suggest Few Are Following Through
In my one on one experience? This is virtue signaling. This this anti vaxx world....they've convinced themselves that not taking the vaxx is "free thinking". That they think things through, and everyone else is a sheep. Masks, too.
But as GGait points out-----somehow in this world of theirs, taking invermectin or monclonal treatments is fine. That's NOT being a sheep.
Good luck explaining how that works.
As previously stated, IMO, inconsistent/bad messaging from the people in charge, including the med establishment, as well as the politicization of a disease...
starting here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/b8ilLJbvkus
well, as you undoubtedly have discovered, most of us on here think the "blame" is predominantly on the charlatans and grifters, and those who have seized on "freedom" as a political divider and actively promoted misinformation, and less so on the "bad" messaging from the medical establishment, the infectious disease experts, the public health experts.
Not that poor messaging didn't contribute, but the politicization whether we like it or not, was predominantly so divided early on because we had a POTUS who wanted to do the medical and policy messaging himself and he so royally botched it at nearly every turn.
The mask thing really should never have been politicized by Trump...but he saw that there's this strain of "freedom" and "individualism" that the right wing has been fostering for years. indeed part of our "American mythology" and he himself undoubtedly found mask wearing 'uncomfortable' and constraining, but the pivot to being defiantly anti-mask was a disastrous move. We should have all been pro-mask usage, all the more so as the evidence came in about it being a respiratory virus with transmission also from asymptomatic infections. Should have been a universal reaction, promoted from the biggest bully pulpit on down...consistent with what the experts were saying as this moved forward and we learned more and more.
And this rejection of the public health experts, the reaction to speak over them, to encourage doubt in them, by Trump, told his political constituency to do the same. IMO, that ultimately sowed the seeds for the huge amount of vax resistance that is so perverse, given that it would/should have been considered such a triumph of will and technology to have accomplished it so fast. Trump's embrace of HCQ, "light", bleach, etc only further exacerbated this craziness, with those who indeed saw it as crazy, to then hammer on the importance of listening to actual experts...but the Trump core simply rejects all such in favor of whatever Trump tells them or some misinformation conspiracy theory seems plausible to them. Divide increased.
Before wgdsr reprimands me for missing how black and brown resistance has been high as well, I totally agree that this was/is far less partisan political in motivation, but rather a general fear of the goodwill of government.
I don't really blame Biden for having decided to be so publicly performative about social distancing and mask compliance during his campaign. Trump had created the divide, Biden stepped into performing as he was communicating that this is what a POTUS should be doing in these circumstances. Appropriate.
Likewise, I don't blame Biden for being so performative about setting aspirational goals for vaccine roll-out, etc; likewise, this what we expect from a POTUS in such a situation. That a large segment of the GOP decided to be anti-vax in response, to actually cheer when a timing goal was narrowly missed...that was simply gross.
Plenty to critique about stumbles in communication from the Biden Admin, but I just don't buy that the craziness of antivax and miracle cure folks is because of the Democrat folks' messaging snafus.
78% of Republicans right now still believe that Joe Biden didn't win the most (legitimate) votes, that Trump actually won the election and should be the rightful POTUS today. Facts don't matter.
Weird world we live in.