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A comment on the image choice (not the story): If the image here wasn't a macro-lens photo of a needle, but rather a child suffering from a preventable illness, would the discourse around it be different?https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/03/measles-outbreak-vaccination-1192887 …
(I say this as someone who gets all his vaccines, but finds needles very disturbing, even though I know, consciously, that they don't hurt. But this isn't about rationality, is it? The last time I tried to have blood drawn, I basically passed out before they even got it in me.)
(In preparation for some international travel, I recently got a battery of new vaccinations. Ironically, my emotional system got very upset about the two needle-given ones — tetanus and a TDap — but was thrilled that the typhoid one was oral. ...)
(But it was the live typhoid vaccine, which took half a week for the course, that made me feel the worse — a sick-like unpleasantness would settle on me for half a day after taking each dose, coupled with stomach issues. But I finished the course, like a good patient.)
All of which to say is: needles are kind of disturbing imagery. There may be some deep-seated fear of "penetration" with sharp things, it may be something else, I don't know. Using them to symbolize vaccines probably tilts the discussion in the wrong direction.
News sites is in the business of selling attention, serving the truth is merely an aspiration.
Sure, but my point is that they could use differently disturbing images if they wanted to do that.
It is a lot easier to get a stock-photo of a syringe than a dying baby.
I actually worked on designing and manufacturing needles and syringes, so I notice. They use pictures of insulin syringes on stories about people that are addicted to synthetic opiates only available in pill form. People are afraid of needles, it grabs attention.
Sugar cube would also symbolize the delivery of polio vaccine but that’s too little drama for news outlets.
Sounds like a job for social science. We could do this in the CAL subject pool
same thing with the opioid epidemic,a picture of a 60's era syringe,spoon+matches.Not the people dying on nyc's streets.
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