Anecdotally, a lot of the non-vax people around me have the “Two years later and I’m still not dead; I’m done with this” attitude towards Covid. The vaxxed people correlate more with those who still care, and are more likely to take a survey on the subject.

You need to remind these people that it was not for their benefit that they were vaccinated. It was for the benefit of the old and infirm people that they came into contact with.

I think it makes sense for a COVID-naive person to get vaccinated. But someone who has had COVID already is in a very different boat.

And, no, boosters aren't fun either. We're looking at a public health failing.

And I'm currently working as a care giver and voluntarily test myself once a week. If I could afford it, I'd be testing daily (the tests are no harder than brushing your teeth). So there you are.

Your adaptive immunity will probably provide a lot of protection from severe disease and hospitalization but it’s far less likely to prevent infection now. There’s been a lot of antigenic drift in the circulating variants since January 2021 and it’s ongoing. Due to this your circulating antibodies probably won’t provide sterilizing immunity anymore but of course that’s true for the vaccinated too. Worrying about vaccination status to stop the spread stopped being worthwhile months ago. If the Omicron boosters work well then it’ll reoccur, until then we can probably all chill out and it won’t change a thing.

I don't know, it seems your doctor doesn't know and I know people who lost their sense of smell and taste on their second go with Covid - now "everything tastes like dirt". Do you want to risk that to prove some kind of point?

I do take risks myself - I meet with friends unmasked and do group activities that can only be done unmasked. But I don't take unnecessary risks, I get regular boosters and I go masked to the grocery store and similar things.

My guess is it has something to do with all those organizations burning their credibility with “two weeks” becoming “two years, and wear a mask whether you got the jab or not”.

Mainstream health organizations did not communicate well or consistently. However, any discussion of the situation in the US has to also mention highly publicized covid denial from a variety of also mainstream organizations (Fox News, The US President, other US officials). Moreover, a self-serving cynicism concerning any need for public safety or the preservation of life also propagated through a variety of channels.

President Biden made the same claim. [3]

1: https://abc3340.com/news/local/those-fully-vaccinated-very-u...

2: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...

3: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/22/joe-biden/...

There is zero chance I will ever answer polling questions under non-anonymous conditions. Even a small risk of a leak makes it not worthwhile. There's also no way to confirm that it's a legit survey.

Now how to change it to give people back their privacy... that's what I'm less sure about. Clearly there are things where your privacy matters because it can be used against you, and then there are other areas where it is less clear what the material harm might be.

So where is this actually happening? I know lots of people claiming this is right around the corner since I’ve been born, but somehow the mind control police have failed to show up. Give me a case of someone being oppressed for a solicited opinion.

(And another, since discussing MIT reminded me: Richard Stallman.)

This isn't new. The powerful always have and always will suppress opposing ideas.

“Is Barack Obama a hippopotamus?” and drop all responses that answer “yes”.

It would be analogous to assuming the results of a Fox News viewer survey are identical to the overall population.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/

Can’t directly link it but in the site you can filter for it and see their predictions vs the results.

Claims without evidence are as solid as intentional misinformation.

The same pattern happened in the 2000s, with the Iraq war of choice. The drumbeat was ever present, hour after hour with no opposing discussion.

NPR has been an echo chamber for some time now. Which "old NPR" do you miss? Were they different in the 80s or 70s ?

I feel like absolute shit from this covid infection right now. ive avoided it since the beginning and im moderna vaxed and boosted.

In states with lower vaccination rates deaths/capita tended to be higher during Delta, but not by much.

I'll just answer that for you: it's because they compared the numbers from the surveys to the official numbers from the CDC.