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m_d_h“We fought so hard with vaccine messaging, but what has happened this past week has brought us back to square zero.”
OK, there's your problem, you've been trying so hard to convince people to receive the shots via "messaging", instead of telling the truth and letting people make their own decisions. "Messaging" is what politicians do to convince people to vote for their bullshit. If you're engaging in "messaging" with respect to COVID, people are going to call bullshit.
The truth: all these COVID shots, regardless of brand, are experimental and were approved for emergency use only; everybody getting a COVID shot right now is a beta tester.
The truth: top leadership at AstraZeneca have lied repeatedly about the safety and efficacy of their shots.
The truth: the J&J shots use the same technology as the AZ shots, and appear to have the same potentially deadly side effects as the AZ shots.
So let people hear the truth and let them make up their own minds. We aren't going to eradicate COVID via vaccination; herd immunity is a mirage. But some people may choose to reduce their personal risk by getting the shots, if the shots are even available to them where they live.
And yet, more truth: around the world at least 12,000 people died from COVID yesterday, and cases are up 22% from two weeks ago, despite over 800 million vaccination shots thus far. We're not winning yet.
OK, there's your problem, you've been trying so hard to convince people to receive the shots via "messaging", instead of telling the truth and letting people make their own decisions. "Messaging" is what politicians do to convince people to vote for their bullshit. If you're engaging in "messaging" with respect to COVID, people are going to call bullshit.
The truth: all these COVID shots, regardless of brand, are experimental and were approved for emergency use only; everybody getting a COVID shot right now is a beta tester.
The truth: top leadership at AstraZeneca have lied repeatedly about the safety and efficacy of their shots.
The truth: the J&J shots use the same technology as the AZ shots, and appear to have the same potentially deadly side effects as the AZ shots.
So let people hear the truth and let them make up their own minds. We aren't going to eradicate COVID via vaccination; herd immunity is a mirage. But some people may choose to reduce their personal risk by getting the shots, if the shots are even available to them where they live.
And yet, more truth: around the world at least 12,000 people died from COVID yesterday, and cases are up 22% from two weeks ago, despite over 800 million vaccination shots thus far. We're not winning yet.