Back during Covid 1.0, the same people who said they didn’t trust vaccines and knew better than doctors were in emergency rooms being put on respirators because Covid had destroyed their lung function.
It’s interesting how a person’s take on modern medicine gets completely reorganized when they’re not able to breathe.
It’s interesting how a person’s take on modern medicine gets completely reorganized when they’re not able to breathe.
“I don’t care until I’m affected” is what many people’s mindset is.
It’s interesting how a person’s take on modern medicine gets completely reorganized when they’re not able to breathe.
You’re giving far too much credit. My daughter was a nurse during covid. Once they got covid tests she’d tell patients and loved ones they tested positive and they’d argue with her that covid wasn’t real. They’d watch their loved ones die and claim it was made up.
It’s interesting how a person’s take on modern medicine gets completely reorganized when they’re not able to breathe.
This is a defining feature of conservatives. Just look at how Ayn Rand had no issue accepting Medicare and Social Security once she was old enough. They have no actual ideals or values.
She also wrote those dumbass books on a methamphetamine binge.
You’ve got to remember that these are just Vaccine-Hesitant Americans. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West… You know, morons.
This just in, propaganda works.
I don’t care, I’m tired of coddling these people and their microscopic “brains”.
I know what you mean because my skin crawls every time I see intelligent people studying how to actually get through to stupid people. There has been a movement among science educators to figure this out, sparked by the realization that “just showing people the data doesn’t work.”
Unfortunately, some have really self-flagellated on this, saying it’s an arrogant approach: “the only reason you don’t agree with me is you don’t have enough information.”
I have trouble feeling bad for giving people information.
But I do applaud the effort to figure out what will work here. We can’t be squeamish about tricks and framing devices when the forces of evil are more than willing to firehose the public with emotional propaganda.
I guess the news here isn’t that propaganda works, but that propaganda works for the truth, too.
You know what they say,never underestimate the power of stupid people in numbers.
Yup. I would approach this by not using words like, “vaccine hesitant.” That’s just a euphemism for “stupid people” and we just don’t have the time during an emergency to coddle their feelings.
I don’t think “explaining things in terms that right wing idiots understand” is propaganda though.
Is this a case of propaganda, or just of speaking to people in a language they understand?
Edit: also, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_deficit_model
