So, I'm not going to tag all the folks I've had disagreements with for *months* now, since December, who didn't believe me that our bungled messaging on post-vaccine transmission was fueling vaccine hesitancy.
How many examples have we heard now? I hear this every single day. https://t.co/AmOgwNgx39
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One can dismiss these as anecdotes but they're everywhere. Plus, we do have polling that shows transmission as key motivator for vaccines. The person I quoted about our terrible messaging was an infectious diseases epidemiologist/scientist at Johns Hopkins University, by the way.pic.twitter.com/Q1gPFnLXog
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I'd seen this in another poll, too. Among those most motivated to get the vaccine? Reason number one and two is they believe vaccine will protect *others*. Resuming normal life as important as not getting COVID. (Wish they had asked this to the hesitant!). https://apnorc.org/projects/safety-concerns-remain-main-driver-of-vaccine-hesitancy/ …pic.twitter.com/mf0zTM12Em
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The success of these vaccines may be among the best tools. Willingness inched up (yeay!) and that's in line with a recent experiment that showed telling people others want the vaccine (true!) helps convince them, too. We can accurately inform *and* create appropriate incentives.
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Also, by summer, people are going to go wild, approved or not. So the choice is between a well-vaccinated public going wild and a poorly vaccinated one going wild. The public health establishment has not gotten it through their heads that indefinite adherence is off the table.
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The early message against wearing masks also damaged public trust. It just didn't sound logical, and then it proved untrue. Public health officials need the public trust.
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Most of the people I know who are going to go "wild" are already doing so without vaccination and are potential spreaders. Would be better if we could say you are less likely to spread COVID to grandma if vaccinated, encouraging it, and then say party on.
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Hard agree. Public needs realistic optimism, clear endpoints, and a path back to a meaningful life. Until public health and feds implement that msg, despair is what we feel.
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It sounds like a kind of elitism where some experts think the unwashed masses can't accept the truth and have to be corralled like sheep. Can't imagine why that attitude might cause problems.
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I would rather they speak to us and share information with us like we are grown-ass adults who can understand nuance and uncertainty. This constant drumbeat of “but you have to mask up and social distance forevvvvvveeeeerrrrrr more” is so depressing and demoralizing.
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And it makes me feel like I should completely stop trying to do both
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