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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister is a Democrat. Wanted to wait a bit to see how it shaped up. Now, she feels like we've been lied to. When the vaccine came out it was "yayyy slim chance you'll get Covid". The narrative has changed so much and the media definitely doesn't help. So she lost a lot of faith in the process and how honest people were being.  She looked at the stats and decided her chance of becoming severely ill or dying is very very low.  And whenever she hears people try to argue that she will get very sick or she will kill grandma, or she's a selfish ahole, she becomes more bitter about how information has been warped and what people do with it.

From talking to her, it seems like this isn't a terribly uncommon stance with people she knows (who aren't republican).

I'm a Covid nurse so I have grilled her extensively about her point of view [/quote]

This is frustrating.  The narrative on vaccines has changed because the nature of the virus has changed.  Scientists could only report on the effectiveness of vaccines as they pertained to the virus as it existed at the time.  The Delta variant is different.  Why can't people understand that this is a fluid situation that evolves rapidly, and the "narrative" necessarily will keep changing.  Sorry to say, but your sister needs to work on her critical thinking skills.  [/quote]

Yes, it is a fluid situation, which is why government officials (including scientists) need to stop making categorical statements and insisting on censorship of potentially new information.  See upthread for definition of science, which is basically never “settled.”[/quote]

A fluid situation calls for more humility. What is misinformation one minute is accepted wisdom the next and the same happens in reverse. Anyone wanting to step back and see if the story stays straight for more than 2 weeks at a time becomes public enemy #1. [/quote]

+1. Authority figures try to suppress anyone who doesn’t reinforce whatever their current messaging is but then they change their messaging. They risk their credibility when they do this. [/quote]

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