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by rajin444 1161 days ago
No liability for the Covid vaccines (yes, I’m aware there are options that in reality almost never pay out) was a huge mistake. How do you repair a breach of trust that severe, outside of massive propaganda campaigns?

And that’s just one small part of how the Covid vaccinations were abysmal in terms of trust building. Blaming the “vaccine hesitant” instead of the politicians and media who lied (directly and indirectly)…further strengthens vaccine hesitancy.

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So you're saying Trump also failed his vaccine rollout?

I'll agree he did a horrible job securing the public trust.

I dont know enough about liability part to comment on it, but most probably neither do you. Vaccine hesitant in general is already a term for those who reject science, so any rational discussion is unfortunately pointless.

How you get there are just pure manipulated emotions of the worst kind, ie fear, and thats not a point any rational scientific argument can fight against and win. If you yourself cant conquer your basic fears, you will always be a puppet to anybody who can play with that, which in real world is tons of pretty bad actors. So there lies your way out, if you actually care about it.

If science can be equated to: "Trust me bro, it works, the man on the TV said so.", perhaps I could buy that this is a good faith take, but those that still refuse to accept that they are suffering from the same blind ignorance is bliss bull** that drives all religions,

I can tell you that with something where the opportunity cost is sterilization of the majority of the planet's population, perhaps you should be skeptical. You know, as the scientific method dictates? Perhaps you were too distracted by the fearmongering to notice the promises slip by your very eyes, as day by day the companies that forced this onto the planet changed the script. From 100% effective, and safe, to, what are we at now? I don't think you even know.

Sunken Cost Fallacy is real, and one way or another at least 50% of the planet have it right now regarding the orwell juice.

I wish you the best of luck with your 50th breakout case of, what are you calling it now, flu? (The same flu that was mysteriously extinct for 2 years)............................................................................................... Despite all the people pointing at AI and shouting, look over there be scurred, you will find that every person you demonized and belittled will be laughing when you come begging for unvaccinated blood.

And to clue you in, no, I don't care if you brigade me to hell.