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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Juliette Kayyem

      The incessant media/social media focus on the stories of the few highly-determined "anti-photogenic" individuals—the ones that confirm all the caricatures—is obscuring the many who might get vaccinated with the right push, mandate or loss of options. *That* should be our focus.https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1425106831010062347 …

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      Juliette KayyemVerified account @juliettekayyem
      Maybe, just maybe, a lot of the unvaccinated aren't as interesting as we think they are and just need a nudge, a burden, a denied privilege for their "deeply help beliefs" to show they are not very deep? Maybe "follow the science" as the sole talking point has run its course? https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1425100657820905487 …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021

      Twitter has been showing me this story for days, a nurse who won't get vaccinated despite having lost two parents to COVID. Yes, she exists. But if you look broadly, we also see a lot of "afraid of side effects", "doesn't have time off" and "just needs to speak to someone."pic.twitter.com/a8SNIjgLaV

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021

      Substantial numbers of the remaining unvaccinated are minorities and/or working poor. Our healthcare system has never worked well, so here we are. Yes, the Tucker Carlson onslaught is terrible but almost all the elderly—prime target for Fox—are vaccinated! Reality *can* trump.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021

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          Any healthcare person will tell you: this is not a rare issue. I know a few educated people who dragged their feet simply because of needle fear, and also wouldn't admit openly. Anyway, a lot of problems are more boring than we think, but require work. https://twitter.com/awalrusdarkly/status/1425114972485529602 …

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Aug 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Rob Zerwekh

          Yeah, it's a thing. We'd get a lot more mileage from trying to work through the less-ideological issues and providing the combination of push (mandates/loss of access) and opportunity (support/time-off/access) than finding yet another person to get mad at.https://twitter.com/zerwekh/status/1425117881935728640 …

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          Rob ZerwekhVerified account @zerwekh
          Replying to @kathiegmt @zeynep
          My station decided to stop showing video of "needles in arms" because of the complaints we received from viewers who don't like needles.
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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 10 Aug 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Given the age breakdown of Covid illness/death, I don't think 85% counts as "almost all." And the fact that in many red states 20% or more of senior citizens remain unvaxxed is a sign of how deep-seated vax resistance is.

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        3. Neil‏ @neipate96 10 Aug 2021
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @zeynep

          western Europe has 95-98% of elderly vaccinated; even with 85% of seniors vaccinated, bulk of deaths in the future will be unvaxed seniors

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        1. JarekFA  🇳🇱 🇸🇷 🇭🇰 🇱🇹 🇺🇦‏ @JarekFA 10 Aug 2021
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          I think of this comparison a lot. The older/richer/white/redder district had super high vax rate; whereas the nearby diverse/middle and working class/younger/swing district had a very low vax rate.pic.twitter.com/ocAQEkRUN6

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        1. Wear a mask don't be a murderer‏ @theolddelewis 10 Aug 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          I'll second this tweet 👆: there are so many people who would get vaccinated if people would reach out to them - a good friend of mine does just that in Cape May County, NJ and even though the work is slow she gets shots in arms

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        1. Eric Reinhart‏ @_Eric_Reinhart 10 Aug 2021
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          More than 25% of US adults have no primary care provider. ~70k ppl die every year due to lack of access to healthcare in our private, revenue-driven system. Lack of trust now cannot be separated from these systematic failures to build caring relationships & trust over years.

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        1. Sumita Pahwa‏ @SumitaPahwa 10 Aug 2021
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          This has been the big thing for me - age groups, more than partisanship, seem to predict vax rates around here.

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        1. David "NH2FL" Hammond‏ @ReggieMoto 10 Aug 2021
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          “Substantial numbers of the remaining unvaccinated are minorities and/or working poor.” Help me understand this without simplistic tropes, please.

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        2. Jen Temple‏ @jatemple 10 Aug 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          Where did the blanket assumption come from that you'll be sick enough to need time off? I know one person who felt like they had the flu out of hundreds of friends, family, coworkers. To not get the vax because you *might* feel lousy for a day seems like another messaging fail.

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        3. Denise Lee-vaccination=freedom‏ @dadavies01 10 Aug 2021
          Replying to @jatemple @zeynep

          The fear of *maybe* having to take time off from work comes from the abysmal [lack of] sick leave policies more than messaging. If the possibility of side effects weren’t stated, that would be wrong (& pounded on by the RW media).

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