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I read a good opinion on this here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skeptics/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skepti

by kyrra 5y ago

I read a good opinion on this here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skeptics/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/convincing-the-skepti... There are a lot of factors that you need to take in account when talking about vaccine hesitant people. Some big ones: * Risk: people that don't think they are at risk of catching covid are less likely to get the vaccine. Many people in rural areas don't interact with people as much, and likely feel like they are less likely to catch it. You can also see risk evaluation playing out in other countries that didn't have large early cases of Covid (like Japan), where the fall 2020 wave wasn't too bad, so people weren't as worried. * Trust: There are many that seem to feel squelching discussion that dissents from the CDC guidance is the best way to convince the skeptics. Sadly, those people that are skeptical will see this as more of a reason not to trust the ruling class. Preventing discussion isn't how to fight this fight.

an_opabinia 5y ago
> trust the ruling class Where did you get the idea that in this country, rural people aren’t ruling the country? Have you looked at the senate lately?
- EricE 5y ago
  Yes, equal representation is evil. How dare all Americans expect to have an equal voice!
  - dragonwriter 5y ago
    > Yes, equal representation is evil. No, equal representation is good, but none of the Senate, the Electoral College, or the House of Representatives feature even roughly equal representation. (The largest house district by population is, IIRC, about 1.75× the size of the smallest, with the same representation, and the range of representation ratios in the other two bodies is much larger.)
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago
  Ugh, this old trope again. Yes, the senate skews congress highly rural. That's the point. It was designed that way. Frankly it works just fine except when electing a president or when doing things at the federal level that should be done at the state level. At the state level, where most of the day to day stuff that affects people's lives is legislated the urban areas in any given state run the show unless the state is very, very, rural. Furthermore, class based distinctions are mostly separate and parallel from urban vs rural ones. Both the hick and the hoodrat know full well their elected representatives, whether they voted for or against them, are nothing like them.
  - an_opabinia 5y ago
    Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.

by kyrra 5y ago

an_opabinia 5y ago

> trust the ruling class Where did you get the idea that in this country, rural people aren’t ruling the country? Have you looked at the senate lately?

EricE 5y ago
Yes, equal representation is evil. How dare all Americans expect to have an equal voice!
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Yes, equal representation is evil. No, equal representation is good, but none of the Senate, the Electoral College, or the House of Representatives feature even roughly equal representation. (The largest house district by population is, IIRC, about 1.75× the size of the smallest, with the same representation, and the range of representation ratios in the other two bodies is much larger.)
throwaway0a5e 5y ago
Ugh, this old trope again. Yes, the senate skews congress highly rural. That's the point. It was designed that way. Frankly it works just fine except when electing a president or when doing things at the federal level that should be done at the state level. At the state level, where most of the day to day stuff that affects people's lives is legislated the urban areas in any given state run the show unless the state is very, very, rural. Furthermore, class based distinctions are mostly separate and parallel from urban vs rural ones. Both the hick and the hoodrat know full well their elected representatives, whether they voted for or against them, are nothing like them.
- an_opabinia 5y ago
  Public health emergencies exceed the limitations of your contrarianism.