The problem is that these "hard questions" - the majority of which fall into the tinfoil hat category, along with Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Myocarditis (which even if a thing is orders of magnitude lower risk than COVID) etc... resulted in lower vaccine uptake.
The biggest problem with lack of vaccinations and rejection of basic spread mitigation efforts - forget masks and distancing, there are plenty of people who ignored "just a cold" and would go to work or events while infected - resulted in emergency rooms that struggled to deal with the sorts of emergencies we see daily. 2,383,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2022, including disabling and non-disabling injuries. This was in addition to the 42,514 people who died in motor vehicle crashes that year. When that happens, you want a functioning ER.
Mn did what he was told but has continued to search for answers others have given up on. That’s a far cry from going into work sick or encouraging reckless behavior. Let’s be honest, some percentage of people are going to engage in those behaviors regardless, and it’s impossible to know what exact effect displays of skepticism on social media had on vaccine uptake and pandemic severity.
The biggest problem with vaccine uptake wasn’t really the skeptical comments on social media or simply reckless people, but the fact that by the time the vaccine was even available we pretty much knew who was truly at risk. Those that didn’t fall into that bucket were not overly concerned about the virus but may have had concerns about taking a rushed experimental vaccine that had really only completed manufacturer testing. Then the poor stats on vaccinated transmission came out and further fanned those flames.
This is probably hard to wrap your head around if you spent the pandemic in an existential meltdown hiding from the virus, but it’s pretty accurate for us folks out here in the real world. If this pandemic had been more of an equal opportunity killer like smallpox or polio or whatever, there would have been much less hesitance and resistance to vaccination.
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