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I think public trust has been eroded by overconfident statements made by authorities, plus the occasional noble lie. I wish that public health communication ha
by xyzzy123 4y ago
I think public trust has been eroded by overconfident statements made by authorities, plus the occasional noble lie.
I wish that public health communication had been more congruent with what was actually known, something like:
"This is a vaccine authorised under emergency conditions and data is still incomplete. It's clearly very beneficial for older citizens but the situation is less clear in the young. We are fairly confident that the rate of serious side effects is quite low" (and then ideally those statements would be followed up by whatever numbers were actually known at the time).
- jacquesm 4y agoSure, but a lot of that can only be said in hindsight. That's the hard part: to be right on everything in a fluid situation. It just isn't possible and for every little detail you get wrong there is a small army of well organized detractors that try to use it to destroy everything else as well. What drives those people is still a mystery to me.