Re:Coronavirus and Credibility
by rconti on Monday April 06, 2020 @04:47PM
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>i've been saying "not more dangerous than the flu" before it started really going to shxt in europe
Have you stopped saying that, or are you still saying it for some reason?
>It made me realize how getting vaccinated for the flu as soon as you reach 50 may actually be a pretty good idea..
Do you realize, you can, and probably should, get vaccinated for the flu each year? And that these vaccines are only a 'best guess' for that particular year, so you should get on each year?
>It actually made me realize how the whole world has been completely desensitized to catastrophic predictions.
I suppose the alternative is to not warn people about pandemics and just let them all run wild? I'm sorry if people choose to get "desensitized", but these organizations are not interested in the politics of whether or not the general public will be able to appropriately digest their messages, and hence don't ration warnings based on how much we can "handle".
Have you stopped saying that, or are you still saying it for some reason?
>It made me realize how getting vaccinated for the flu as soon as you reach 50 may actually be a pretty good idea..
Do you realize, you can, and probably should, get vaccinated for the flu each year? And that these vaccines are only a 'best guess' for that particular year, so you should get on each year?
>It actually made me realize how the whole world has been completely desensitized to catastrophic predictions.
I suppose the alternative is to not warn people about pandemics and just let them all run wild? I'm sorry if people choose to get "desensitized", but these organizations are not interested in the politics of whether or not the general public will be able to appropriately digest their messages, and hence don't ration warnings based on how much we can "handle".