Given the high degree of hesitancy among Republicans and rural Americans, a coalition of health groups and foundations turned to Frank Luntz, a prominent GOP pollster and message crafter. He found that lecturing, shaming or even appealing to abstract notions of doing what’s right doesn’t change minds. What resonated is emphasizing how vaccines can make people and their loved ones safe — and how it can help life return to normal.
“Family is by far the most powerful motivator for vaccine acceptance,” Luntz reported. “Significantly more Americans said they’d be most willing to take the vaccine for their family as opposed to ‘your country,’ ‘the economy,’ ‘your community,’ or ‘your friends.’” (He also found a very pronounced preference for the word “vaccine” over “jab.”)
I think this is also an important point to consider when talking about the differences between vaccines.
Rural clinics have also had practical barriers. Shots from Pfizer and Moderna are harder to ship and store than most traditional vaccines, and they aren’t well-suited to small rural communities. The newest shot, from Johnson & Johnson, is easier to handle and is the first to require just one dose, so it may be a boon to rural areas and places where people must travel long distances to get inoculated. The downside is that the J&J shot may be perceived as less desirable than Pfizer and Moderna, which had higher overall efficacy rates in clinical trials. However, health officials have tried to emphasize that J&J gives excellent protection against hospitalization and death from Covid-19.
The community thing didn’t work with my sisters. They’re not getting it. Some idiot nurse they know says it causes infertility and they can’t be convinced otherwise. After all, she’s a nurse.
My mother is wishy-washy about getting it which means she eventually will but will bitch and complain about it.
I think the rough consensus here was its cool to hang out with other vaxxed folks inside and maskless. Probably fine to go back inside the grocery store masked up if you are into that sort of thing.
I also think most here are kind of iffy on going to a restaurant and eating inside (though it’s probably fine just feels sketchy) and will probably pass on crowd stuff like concerts and sporting events for a while.
Flying somewhere masked up is probably fine just limit the yolo at your destination. At least this is how I plan to roll.
I guess we can’t draw conclusions yet, but it would be nice to know if there’s any evidence at all of vaccinated people a) getting the virus (testing positive) and b) spreading the virus. One would think there would be some evidence of this. Are we that bad at contact tracing? Maybe. As more people get vaccinated, seems like it should be easier to find this evidence, if it exists.
To me the biggest reason to not truly YOLO after vaxx is the giant natural selection program we are running to try and find variants that can get around acquired immunities.
You know, still lots of cases and people with varying levels of immunity with lots of exposure between the two groups. Lots of chance to mutate and ample opportunity to find and enrich the immune system avoiding mutants.
Do the small important stuff. Where a mask otherwise and/or stay out of crowds.
This is just for informational purposes. Not an endorsement. People at a minimum think they have something going on and the docs are tracking the symptoms.
It’s amazing how these guys just plow on undeterred.
No one on Chiefsplanet even remembers they were denying covid a year ago. And of course you can’t bring it up because that would be political and stirring shit in the ostensibly non-political thread.
Berenson has gone all-in on the vaccine basically being useless. Particularly among older folks. Says the Israeli data proves it or something something.
I thought this was pretty interesting for a few reasons, one, a scientist being really open about current research, two, a nice summary of many aspects of how SARS-CoV-2 works, and three, the particulars of his work identifying problematic viral variants before they emerge, which can potentially guide vaccine development. It’s pretty accessible to non-scientists, but one thing he didn’t really introduce, that isn’t particularly common knowledge, and that he makes extensive use of is the amino acid letter code. You may be familiar with how DNA sequences are represented by ACT and G, but the 20 amino acids that arrange themselves into chains in each protein has a letter code, too:
It got better. Let’s say they were getting a lot of emails with suggestions. Never once replied back. I assume they were getting similar input from many people in parallel.
