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Bill Gates on the vaccines: “ “You know, we didn’t have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly
by gfodor 5y ago
Bill Gates on the vaccines: “ “You know, we didn’t have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help you with your health, but they only slightly reduced transmission,”
Now go read my original post and tell me who sounds more in line with reality: the person noticing the relatively low efficacy of the vaccines to stop transmission and saying this deficiency should be incorporated in policy, or those who say it is very good (often because they do not want to lead people to avoid the vaccine, ironically, which happens due to loss of trust from such spin) and go on to write and impose policies that assume it is highly effective at stopping all aspects of the virus.
- maxerickson 5y agoSo people lose trust because of spin and "do their own research" and it's vaccine positive messaging (about the vaccines that are safe and work well) that is ultimately the problem?
- gfodor 5y agoThere is no one problem (nice strawman), but when the CDC makes bold claims in a chaotic, dynamic environment that are unjustified based on the science, which they have done endlessly, it erodes trust to the point where people presume they are bad faith, have conflicts of interest, or are simply incompetent, so subsequent messaging has less effect.