Re:California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous
by timr on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:38AM
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> it's like a condom for your face. What's not to love?
I know you're being cheeky here, but just to be serious for a moment: there's a HUGE literature on the subject of condom use and public-health messaging from the 80s and the HIV crisis. Condoms are...not exactly popular, of course (the TL;DR is that shaming doesn't work very well. Honesty and education >> scolding and shaming when it comes to behavioral change that is intimate and unpleasant).
It's continually astounding to me how many lessons from that pandemic seem to have been forgotten.
I know you're being cheeky here, but just to be serious for a moment: there's a HUGE literature on the subject of condom use and public-health messaging from the 80s and the HIV crisis. Condoms are...not exactly popular, of course (the TL;DR is that shaming doesn't work very well. Honesty and education >> scolding and shaming when it comes to behavioral change that is intimate and unpleasant).
It's continually astounding to me how many lessons from that pandemic seem to have been forgotten.