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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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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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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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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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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I wonder how helpful lazy stock photos used in news articles are
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