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https://archive.is/2xQ0U https://archive.is/2xQ0U "But for those not fully vaccinated, it is becoming increasingly dangerous almost everywhere." At what point

by ipspam 5y ago

https://archive.is/2xQ0U https://archive.is/2xQ0U "But for those not fully vaccinated, it is becoming increasingly dangerous almost everywhere." At what point will the Public Health establishment stop pretending they are relevant, stop censoring/controlling the message, and go back to doing real research and real science? I fear they were given an impossible task, and they have no exit strategy. Turns out roughly half of half of the population doesn't care about coronavirus, and there is nothing public health officials can do.

jfengel 5y ago
"Controlling the message" is what you do when you get into public health. You go into public health because you want people to be healthy. A goodly chunk of that consists of convincing people that they want to be healthy. They've been doing that for decades, on hundreds of diseases and conditions, long before COVID-19 was a twinkle in some bat's eye. That's aggravating, frustrating work. It sucks, and you don't get a lot of big, obvious wins. But you do it because you think it matters. There are a lot of things that they can do. It doesn't turn around millions of people overnight. But it does change minds -- they can see it in the surveys they take and in the numbers of people showing up in clinics. Figuring out how to get the message out in a way that people accept and act on is real research and real science. Real research that saves lives -- even if they're not grateful about it, even in the face of an opposition intent on being obnoxious, even if the only way they can tell is in the ticking of a graph. Because it's important to them that people not die.
- peytn 5y ago
  Pretty much everyone in life sciences/medicine wants people to be healthy. Public health attracts those who have a problem with informed consent. They need to clean up their act ethics-wise. It’s not working in 2021.

by ipspam 5y ago

jfengel 5y ago

"Controlling the message" is what you do when you get into public health. You go into public health because you want people to be healthy. A goodly chunk of that consists of convincing people that they want to be healthy. They've been doing that for decades, on hundreds of diseases and conditions, long before COVID-19 was a twinkle in some bat's eye. That's aggravating, frustrating work. It sucks, and you don't get a lot of big, obvious wins. But you do it because you think it matters. There are a lot of things that they can do. It doesn't turn around millions of people overnight. But it does change minds -- they can see it in the surveys they take and in the numbers of people showing up in clinics. Figuring out how to get the message out in a way that people accept and act on is real research and real science. Real research that saves lives -- even if they're not grateful about it, even in the face of an opposition intent on being obnoxious, even if the only way they can tell is in the ticking of a graph. Because it's important to them that people not die.

peytn 5y ago
Pretty much everyone in life sciences/medicine wants people to be healthy. Public health attracts those who have a problem with informed consent. They need to clean up their act ethics-wise. It’s not working in 2021.