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Public vs personal health in Omicron – NYC as an example

Tim Niiler —2022-01-10
Is Omicron better than Delta or worse? This piece looks at what the data show on both a personal level and at a public health level. The bottom line is that we're likely to see a surge that swamps our hospitals with mostly unvaccinated individuals. While vaccinations and boosters may keep you out of the hospital, you still may get very sick.

Science in the Fire

One of our favorite techniques is to take a journey together with people you want to influence. Start where they are, and then begin in the direction you want to go together. Where people are today is lacking trust. For-profit medicine has sometimes taken obscene profits from desperate people.  The WHO and CDC have made some mistakes. Some media corporations have manipulated this mistrust by exaggerating mistakes.  Model the behaviors you want: a willingness to listen, to point out when "your side" makes mistakes. Model how to change your mind.

Vaccine Hesitancy in Conservative Circles

admin —2021-06-12
Most — but not all — conservative media have long underplayed the dangers of Covid and exaggerated the risks of the vaccine, or waffled back and forth. While we're a bit baffled how medical science became so political, we find that arguing facts tends to cause people to dig in deeper. One of our favorite communication techniques that we recommend for conservative circles is broadcasting conservative messengers: we're collecting science-based non-political health information coming from voices acceptable in conservative circles. Read more...
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