Thread by @vmyths

Let's talk cybersecurity.

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News of COVID19 vaccines' side effects are so wild that rumors are spreading of how many #SickDays you'll burn to get both (repeat: "both") shots.

So let's compare it to the history of #computer antivirus vaccine use...

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Historically, users gleefully installed #computer vaccines when they were released (typically a few days) after a deadly global virus outbreak "that cost millions of computers' lives and billions of dollars in damages."

But then users came to a rumored realization...

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They said "you'll pay a severe penalty for #antivirus vaccines."

Users rumored it made their computers sluggish; that it constantly wasted their time to install vaccine updates every {month | week | day}; that it interfered with important company processes; blah blah blah

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And so, historically, users came to inject computer #antivirus vaccines only after their own PC suffered a virus.

So corporate admins made it their job to shove vaccines down employees' CAT5 throats.

Yet employees still found ways to turn off vaccine software!

Or worse...

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Admins would push a new product to all PCs where the installation directions told them to:

1️⃣ "Disable antivirus"
2️⃣ "Run install.exe"
...
🔟 "Congrats! Your firm is now the industry leader"

Never did their instructions say:
9️⃣ "Reenable #antivirus"

https://twitter.com/vmyths/status/242756291087450112

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And, oh my, users watched myriad cable TV commercials day & night for PC repair software:

"Why spend money on #antivirus software that doesn't work and slows your computer? Buy our magical elixer for the low price of $29.95 and in minutes your PC will run like new!"

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30+ years of innuendo re: computer #antivirus vaccines has combined with decades of poorly deployed vaccines to create a world where users don't want the cyber hygiene we force upon them.

So...

Why should it be any different for COVID19 vaccines?

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