And if you privately ask any person who knows about this, they’ll tell you that, yeah, almost definitely it will decrease you odds of infecting other people, possibly to near zero. But we talk honestly about what we do and don’t know. That’s the whole job.
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“If we don’t trust them they don’t trust us back” is the thing.
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But it’s so easy to not trust them in this world...often because our biases are also being exploited by social media...making us think that we’re fighting a battle when we should just be informing.
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I think we focused too much on admonishing the public instead of trusting and empowering them with the nuance, the uncertainty and the complexity. Sometimes people think I’m blaming the scientists or the public health professionals. Recognizing reality is how it gets better.
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Nuance is not always easy to communicate, but oversimplification often backfires, especially when it's rooted in the assumption that the public is just waiting for an excuse to act irresponsibly.
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interestingly, some data that communicating public health uncertainty is associated with more public trusthttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774025 …
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