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> There's an object lesson they sometimes do in university classes or corporate retreats where two people are asked to push against each other's hands. It usual

> There's an object lesson they sometimes do in university classes or corporate retreats where two people are asked to push against each other's hands. It usually ends with "why are you pushing so hard?" "Because you were pushing so hard." Perfect example is the current crop of vaccination mandates being pushed by the federal government. Look up "New reported doses administered by day", and you'll see the number of vaccines being administered has been declining since the mandates were announced. If your goal is to get more people vaccinated and promote public health, it turns out forcing people to do so and censoring discussion actually has the exact opposite effect.

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> and you'll see the number of vaccines being administered has been declining since the mandates were announced Correlation is not causation. It's easy to suppose that causation in fact runs the other way - the mandates come to the fore at the point when doses given are already declining due to running short on willing unvaccinated people, and the vaccination drive is perceived as needing an "extra push". There is some real-world evidence that despite people complaining, uptake after a vaccine mandate is in fact high. e.g. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1041360095/united-airlines-workers-vaccinated https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1041360095/united-airlines-wo...