I recently discussed how naïve we provaxxers were pre-pandemic. We used to assume that vaccines were victims of their own success and if antivaxxers only saw the mass suffering and death a vaccine-preventable disease (which #COVID19 is now) can cause, they’d stop being antivax.https://twitter.com/JHowardBrainMD/status/1398648680396230661 …
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Fair point. I was thinking about the US.
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You're talking about the "What I see is all there is" heuristic, and I agree that it's powerful. But there is also motivated reasoning going on as well as a good deal of whistling in the dark. Willfull blindness. The monster isn't there if I don't look at it.
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Ha! I used "firsthand" twice and didn't notice.


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While I'm at it, ditto Brazil, where people are seeing what
#COVID19 does first hand...
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