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Originally Posted by TLO
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I agree in a perfect world. But unfortunately time and time and time again the vaccine hesitant don't believe it until it happens to someone close to them. See the guy I just posted. His wife said 30 of their friends have now gotten vaxxed in his name. Clearly seeing him die mattered more to them than any rationally-presented charts and figures. His wife even said she had to force herself to get off social media (where she was seeing tons of anti-vaxx stuff).
A lot of these people either don't watch the news or are in some weird bubble where covid is barely happening and the vaccines are causing more harm then good. If those people come wandering into this thread and maybe start influencing others - I feel the need to fight back. One way is "hey - look at all these anti-vaxxers and vaxx-hesitant people dying and regretting it, do you want that to be you?"
Like I said I'll stop, but I think it's an effective counter to the stuff MahomesMagic is spewing and the "just asking questions" stuff from carlos and some others.
It's silly imo to pretend we're not in an asymmetrical disinformation war, where people are making perfectly rational decisions. They're not. Well paid influencers are spewing emotionally-charged anti-vaxx propaganda and sowing distrust all over the internet, radio and TV.
Sometimes the only way to stop someone from making an emotionally-charged irrational decision is an emotional tug the other way. They didn't get to that place with cold hard facts and reason, and facts and reason alone aren't going to get them out. Everyone is ultimately driven by their emotions, even if they think they aren't.