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Topic	"I won't take the vaccine because it makes liberals mad"
Balrog0 04/27/21 9:27:00 AM #20:	COVxy posted... I mean, I suppose we'll wait on the science to come out on that. But just anecdotally online, I've seen headlines being blasted through social media abusing the laws of large numbers, framed in a way to deliberately instill fear. Perhaps that's helped the people on the fence decide to get vaccinated, but I doubt it! There are just a large number of ways in which we could boost public perception, though they run counter to the goals of most news agencies. But I just don't think "they're cutting off their noses to spite their faces" is really a productive conclusion, nor do I think it's likely to be highly supported, but that's just my own expectation. I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with that second paragraph. As for the first, not to be rude, but i don't really care what your intuition says! If you check out the KFF dashboard on vaccines, you can see that the "wait and see group" has steadily been dropping as people get vaccinated, which is exactly as you'd expect. The number of people who say they won't get it or will only get it if it's required has been more much durable. It may be true the media could do a better job, but the decline in hesitancy among the group that are actually hesitant, and the big disparities between groups (the biggest one, at I noted, being registered republicans) hardly point to the media being a bigger problem than hyperpartisan thinking like in the op --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 <cite>Balrog0 posted [p:953278592] in "I wo... [t:79427339]...</cite> <quote>COVxy posted... </cite> <quote>I mean, I suppose we'll wait on the science to come out on that. But just anecdotally online, I've seen headlines being blasted through social media abusing the laws of large numbers, framed in a way to deliberately instill fear. Perhaps that's helped the people on the fence decide to get vaccinated, but I doubt it! There are just a large number of ways in which we could boost public perception, though they run counter to the goals of most news agencies. But I just don't think "they're cutting off their noses to spite their faces" is really a productive conclusion, nor do I think it's likely to be highly supported, but that's just my own expectation.</quote> I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with that second paragraph. As for the first, not to be rude, but i don't really care what your intuition says! If you check out the KFF dashboard on vaccines, you can see that the "wait and see group" has steadily been dropping as people get vaccinated, which is exactly as you'd expect. The number of people who say they won't get it or will only get it if it's required has been more much durable. It may be true the media could do a better job, but the decline in hesitancy among the group that are actually hesitant, and the big disparities between groups (the biggest one, at I noted, being registered republicans) hardly point to the media being a bigger problem than hyperpartisan thinking like in the op --- Trying to dunk since July 2020</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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