Good coverage of the latest messaging disaster, in a year with many. We are dramatically underselling the amazing vaccines, exaggrating the uncertainties and people trying to emphasize the good news are being drowned out, or worse.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html …
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Future generations: “Wait what? They got vaccines with 95% efficacy for *any* disease and then spent the initial month of the rollout writing many articles about how it won’t change anything in the short term (rather than that point being a tiny footnote?).” Yes, yes, we did.
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Yep. So counterproductive. The young healthy people reading all these articles are going to be asking themselves what’s the point in getting vaccinated if they can still spread it, still need to wear masks and social distance and life doesn’t return to normal?
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Literally exactly what my (smart, well-read) brother said to me: "if I can still spread it what's the point". The messaging is terrible
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Yeah, and when you point this out, you get a lot of experts denying this is an issue.
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