An idea: You know what would be good? If the govt would be honest with people for a damn change. In my experience most people will accept restrictions & sacrifices for the greater good if they’re necessary & effective. But you have to explain them in order to get buy in. /1
The govt is not doing this about the covid vaccine. People think that once you’re vaccinated, how can you spread the disease? Isn’t that the point of vaccination- so you’re immune? So how does it make any sense to wear a mask after being vaccinated? /2
The thing is the govt isn’t explaining the situation so it makes sense. They aren’t explaining that some vaccines completely clear you of the disease - & therefore you can’t pass it on, which is called sterilizing immunity. The smallpox vaccine does this so we’ve eradicated it./3
Other vaccines are not sterilizing, which means your body still contracts the disease & you can transmit it, but the vaccine keeps you from suffering from the illness it creates. The vaccine for whooping cough is like this. /4
If tbe damn govt would just explain that to people, & that we aren’t sure yet which way the covid vaccine will go, then the advice to keep wearing masks after vaccination would not look like a simple tyranny play. /5
I suspect the main issue is that the medical establishment does not want to explain this issue to the public for fear that it will drive down innoculation rates generally. But doing things like that & lying early only about mask effectiveness just produces rebellion. /6
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