People in general can’t look at things as systems or have any understanding of probability or nuance. So trying to communicate a clear message to get people to

People in general can’t look at things as systems or have any understanding of probability or nuance. So trying to communicate a clear message to get people to voluntarily perform a pro-social action that doesn’t have 100% certainty turns out to be incredibly difficult. Mix in that most Western countries are highly individualistic, the existence of anti-vaxxers, the spread of things like QAnon and it’s an up hill battle. I’ve heard engineers complain saying things like “I got the vaccine, how come I haven’t gotten all my freedoms back yet? Why did I bother?” in the middle of an out break. The people whose job it is to look at complex systems fall short. Maximising their chances of getting severely ill is seen as an inconvenience. Was there any other possible outcome?