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> extremely easy to change peoples minds though. If a serious enough pandemic arises, you won't have to change minds. Real fear of the pandemic will be enough.
by tejohnso 5y ago
> extremely easy to change peoples minds though.
If a serious enough pandemic arises, you won't have to change minds. Real fear of the pandemic will be enough.
I don't know anybody, who knows anybody who died or was even hospitalized due to covid. All the fear and alarm has to be manufactured.
- bumby 5y ago>I don't know anybody...All the fear" You seem to be extrapolating an n=1 scenario to the population as a whole ("I" --> "All"). Are you then implying anyone who does know somebody sick or hospitalized has warranted fear?
- tejohnso 5y ago> Are you then implying anyone who does know somebody sick or hospitalized has warranted fear? I'm not talking about whether it is warranted or not, but if you know somebody sick or hospitalized, the fear you experience from that is likely to be very impactful, and you will be more inclined to get a vaccine based on that.
- bumby 5y agoI agree. But I also acknowledge that type of heuristic probably isn't optimal.
- bserge 5y agoThe media definitely had a field year with the smelly feces they call "news", but the alarm is real. If the virus mutated to be like the Spanish flu antivaxxers would be singing a different tune. But nothing as bad happened. And these panicky people saying "we're in the middle of a pandemic" are funny, like they haven't been outside for years - go out, the majority, vaccinated or not, doesn't give a fuck about Covid anymore. Lives are pretty much back to normal, minus international travel and half-arsed safety in stores.