04-28-2021, 01:20 AM
PeterB wrote:
[quote=$tevie]
I worry that people will walk around without masks using the excuse "I've been vaccinated" even though they have not. I wish the CDC had kept this under their hat.
I think the REAL problem is a significant lack of understanding of science and medical things by the general public. For example, the idea that you cannot get sick if vaccinated. Or any sort of understanding about how things are transmitted. One of my favorite YouTubes to illustrate this concept is one that someone here posted a long while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-dI74zxPg
The constant dis-unified drip of information adds up. Today MIT released a study that found social distancing (6 feet) was a fallacy. Whether factual or not this sort of thing gets weaponized by political types - types who don't give "rats ass" if people get sick or if they die but are willing to use the pandemic to further their drive for power.
The process of collecting and disseminating accurate public information is intentionally sabotaged by entities like Fox News and Murdoch publications. It's a mess out there and hard to see a way to clarify anything without first getting a handle on the disinformation channels that operate under 1st amendment protections.