Minor tweaks in how the media talks about vaccines (and the mountains of evidence we have that they're safe and effective) will not solve vaccine hesitancy. It's a drop of water in an ocean of disinformation.
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How would you solve vaccine hesitancy if not through dialogue?
By addressing the root cause of vaccine hesitancy, which is disinformation and those that engineer it.
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And how would you address the root cause?
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We could start by holding those responsible accountable for the damage they cause. It boils down to a very small number of unethical actors.
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What do you think about educating people on how to find real information instead of fighting the people who engineer disinformation?
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Teach a man to fish, as they say.
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The anti-vaxx/anti-mask movements both have a very astrotrurfed feel to them (for example the stickers which keep appearing in my village look like a professional graphic designer was involved, and all appear around the same time)
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Suggesting a few (well funded) people are behind this (I’m not going to engage in conspiracy theories by guessing who or why, I genuinely have no idea), if this hunch is correct than the strategy you are suggesting would work very well
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Yellow journalism has been around for a long time. YouTube and Facebook became the fresh, new, and highly distributed medium for the message
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