> It is baffling that these people pretend to not know why people don't trust them. This has been the real sticking point for me throughout this whole thing. A

> It is baffling that these people pretend to not know why people don't trust them. This has been the real sticking point for me throughout this whole thing. As much as I don’t like Joe Rogan, I went and watched some of his conversation with Sanjay Gupta, and I applaud Sanjay for even agreeing to go on Joe’s show at a time when he was (imo) only getting worse. But he really, really, did not do a great job. Specifically, he literally hesitated to answer the question “Do you think it’s a problem that your news network lies?”. Surely Sanjay Gupta knows that CNN had exclusively been running headlines saying Joe Rogan was taking “horse dewormer” even though he was taking the actual human version of ivermectin. I don’t think it’s the responsibility of public health officials to bend over backwards trying to repeatedly convince people who will not be convinced by any evidence. But I also think they’re between a rock and a hard place, since if they just stop trying, then there’s the question of “well we could have done more and saved more people”. I don’t have any solution, but I don’t think the move is for them to keep doubling down on repeating “the vaccines are safe and effective”. Because although it may be true, it clearly isn’t working.