And the mask-wearing crowd is not going to throw off their mask after one dose. All we’re doing is making especially younger people (who will infect others) wonder why bother jumping through so much hoops etc. if nothing will change. Not protecting masking, not helping update.
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You were right on and I amplified you as much as I could, as in the below tweet. But I do think people need affirmative guidance on what to do after being vaccinated. Doesn’t mean positive messages can’t be amplified in other ways.https://twitter.com/notdred/status/1243918345973501955?s=21 …
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Replying to @notdred @Brian_Orak and
Right now, the weirdly overwhelming message is “vaccine won’t change things” and, for unfathomable reasons, some weird focus on not taking masks off (when it’s not happening nor is it a threat!). We face a really tough few months and emphasizing the endgame is crucial.
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Yeah I feel like anytime anyone dares to fantasize about what they'll do after the vaccine, a bunch of people pop up to say, "You'll keep wearing your mask and social distancing, THAT'S what you'll do." It's like they're trying to murder hope.
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Replying to @michelleinbklyn @notdred and
When I point this out, many MDs/academics tell me that’s not the message out there. That is absolutely the message out there. We should have church bells ringing in honor of these vaccines not a zillion articles lecturing the miniscule number of people with two doses about masks.
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Replying to @zeynep @michelleinbklyn and
We tweeted to each other about this yesterday, but if the point is we need to communicate a pathway to the end that people can visualize, no argument at all there. And I agree that many have been unnecessarily pessimistic, including by focusing on things like the herd immunity %
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Here are the headlines- there are literally dozens of these. This should be the footnote not the leading point about these. https://www.google.com/amp/s/khn.org/news/article/5-reasons-to-wear-a-mask-even-after-youre-vaccinated/amp/ … https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/12/956051995/why-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-and-avoid-crowds-after-getting-the-covid-19-vac … https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/health/covid-vaccine-mask.amp.html … https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/12/14/health/mask-covid-19-safety-vaccine-wellness/index.html …
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Replying to @AaronRichterman @notdred and
Headlines. Articles. Viral tweets by experts. Piling on anyone who dares emphasize the hopeful. It’s antivaxxers who send all this everywhere. It’s the nonsense that if we don’t do this, people will just take off their masks—misunderstands the problem with remaining nonmaskers.
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Replying to @zeynep @AaronRichterman and
It’s not anti-vaxxers sending the message to keep wearing a mask after vaccination. That’s a ridiculous statement w/o evidence & doesn’t square w what we know from decades of vaccine hesitancy research. It’s responsible PH experts & journalists who know the social sci research.
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Replying to @tarahaelle @AaronRichterman and
Tara not sure why you are misreading it, but this incorrect message—that we don’t know anything about transmission reduction and that nothing will change after vaccination—has indeed become key antivaxxer message. Once again, your community is circling wagons. Need to listen up.
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It’s been a year, and it has not served experts on social media—in fairness, they never should have had to communicate so much with the public but with CDC failing to do so, here we are—nor science journalists—who so badly screwed up and sometimes continue to do—to circle wagons.
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