response: No one ever said vaccine mandates would stop Covid. What we keep saying is that vaccine mandates will save lives, reduce the strain on health services and reduce workplace disruptions from infected workers.
Complaint: Vaccines don't slow the spread as is clearly seen in the states and countries with the highest vaccination rates still having huge surges so the choice for vaccination is an entirely individual one
response: Complaint: MANDATES WON'T STOP COVID
response: No one ever said vaccine mandates would stop Covid. What we keep saying is that vaccine mandates will save lives, reduce the strain on health services and reduce workplace disruptions from infected workers.
Nice anti-vax propaganda. I appreciate how important it is for some to transform hope into FUD - no matter how much integrity they forfeit in the process.
So anyway the truth is vaccines absolutely slow the spread of Covid, something easily verified many, many ways. Comparing counties with high vaccination rates against neighboring counties with low vaccination rates is just one easy way.
This is something that folks do, who don't get their info from Covid Conspiracy Theory Videos (CCTV) or other anti-vax propaganda outlets - who aren't laser focused on drowning out the broad consensus of qualified experts.
Propaganda can go in both directions. When it comes to health, granular analysis and transparency; accuracy and avoiding blunt tactics is better than distorting or misrepresenting facts or propaganda under the banner of greater-good.
Take Victoria, Australia where I am. Approaching 250 days of strict lockdown with curfews and other never-ending draconian rules.
Our Chief Health Officer said recently: "Get the jab, your life depends on it". The Premier said: "one more vaccinated person is one less hospitalization".
Both statements are false, designed to encourage vaccination by fear-mongering. The Premier has attempted to map a one-to-one ratio between the unvaccinated and hospitalization. We don't need to see actual data to know that being unvaccinated does not mean you'll end up in hospital. And: "your life depends on it" will be interpreted by many as "if you don't get vaccinated, you will die".
They know what they're doing. The scare tactics drive vaccinations. That's how they will justify future unpopular policy. It gets results. They get to say what is "right" and what is "wrong". The rules and laws they introduce are announced as "right".
Officials then front the media with: "Most Victorians are doing the right thing, it's just a few extremists doing the wrong thing". Anyone who disagrees finds themselves in the extremist camp.
Currently, nobody can walk in the city of Melbourne without a valid reason. Cops will approach and if you can't prove you need to be there, you'll be moved on or arrested.
Your comment drops the go-to "anti-vax" name, and you've used use the word "conspiracy" and remind us you're on the side of experts. IMHO a comment composed of those elements has little value.
