Yes. I worry however that too much, far too much, of booster uptake 'hesitancy' is 'soft', ie the folk are not entirely sure just why they wont take a booster. Trot out covid mk 2 and a vaccine to save us and what proportion of 'booster hesitants' might line up?
Our opportunity - the booster hesitants need to be shown how they were ri…
Yes. I worry however that too much, far too much, of booster uptake 'hesitancy' is 'soft', ie the folk are not entirely sure just why they wont take a booster. Trot out covid mk 2 and a vaccine to save us and what proportion of 'booster hesitants' might line up?
Our opportunity - the booster hesitants need to be shown how they were right to resist. It is easy to engage on the basis of explaining to folk how they were right, and so much more difficult to explain to folk how they were wrong. People love being right and will sit down to listen to just how right they were. In some detail. And they then become resistant to further propaganda.
I dunno, actually. My redpill success is modest at best, say 2 of 20 folk. So not great. However one success actually came from the above dynamic, you resisted, turns out your instincts were right, here is why, aren't you clever. It was a thing, it worked.
This is interesting - another estimate "by the numbers" - You think about 1 in 10 of your outreach efforts have paid dividends. That's not bad. If we could all convince 1 in 10 people to consider the possibility they've been misled, the needle would move pretty fast.
I don't get out much and rarely engage people in 1-on-1 debates so I don't know what my batting average would be. I do try to persuade people through the old written word, but I certainly realize that I am "preaching to the choir" here on Substack.
Yes. I worry however that too much, far too much, of booster uptake 'hesitancy' is 'soft', ie the folk are not entirely sure just why they wont take a booster. Trot out covid mk 2 and a vaccine to save us and what proportion of 'booster hesitants' might line up?
Our opportunity - the booster hesitants need to be shown how they were right to resist. It is easy to engage on the basis of explaining to folk how they were right, and so much more difficult to explain to folk how they were wrong. People love being right and will sit down to listen to just how right they were. In some detail. And they then become resistant to further propaganda.
I dunno, actually. My redpill success is modest at best, say 2 of 20 folk. So not great. However one success actually came from the above dynamic, you resisted, turns out your instincts were right, here is why, aren't you clever. It was a thing, it worked.
This is interesting - another estimate "by the numbers" - You think about 1 in 10 of your outreach efforts have paid dividends. That's not bad. If we could all convince 1 in 10 people to consider the possibility they've been misled, the needle would move pretty fast.
I don't get out much and rarely engage people in 1-on-1 debates so I don't know what my batting average would be. I do try to persuade people through the old written word, but I certainly realize that I am "preaching to the choir" here on Substack.
What a tell. I don't think these nations can even give away these doses (to, say, poor nations). Nobody wants them.