Important caveat from @DhruvKhullar: "we know for sure that the vaccines...prevent severe illness in almost all people who are inoculated...we’re not yet certain that the vaccines can prevent people from becoming infected or infecting others."https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/how-getting-vaccinated-will-and-wont-change-my-behavior …
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Often the reason for avoiding nuance is because bad faith arguments pop up using your own words against you (out of context). I think we've also seen those bad faith statements will be fabricated if convenient, so might as well put the nuance out there for individuals to assess.
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Two arguments I see a lot on social media (misguided but not necessarily bad faith): 1. Vaccines don't block transmission so are pointless for the young. 2. Officials say we will have to mask/distance forever so we should resist that now.
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Dismissal, recklessness and depressed enthusiasm to take the vaccine. Hopefully by the time of general public availability, we will be confident enough to say that immunized people can freely gather with each other - and thereby accelerate vaccine uptake.
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Totally agree. We can just be open and honest about what we know about transmission, and *carefully/tactfully* extrapolate this to vaccination while we wait for more data.
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Yes! We need to wait a bit more, even a few weeks or months, is an excellent and durable message, and also a lot more likely to take than the "vaccines will not make a difference in your lives maybe for another year or more" message that is being inadvertently spread right now.
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