the next group to target is not the over-discussed vaccine-hesitant but the under-discussed “I’m not at risk and I’ll just wait until I don’t have to go out of my way in the slightest to get one” group. time to set up kiosks on sidewalks and give out gift cards to passers by
you don’t work an objective from hardest-to-achieve to easiest-to-achieve. the next easy win is just making it literal zero-effort to people who just don’t want to deal with appointments or lines or anything that takes more than an extra three minutes
cut the meat off the bone where it’s easiest, then deal with the PR hell of unwinding tens of millions of self-appointed medical experts schooled on a steady diet of digital malpractice
it is so silly to me to take up all the bandwidth with discussions on how to convince MAGAmommy2A4EVR who spends her days drinking essential oils and whale piss to get a shot when there’s a huge swath of people who are totally cool with it but just hate the added complexity
well I would lead in with that and maybe ask a few more hourly employees but that’s not as sexy a story as blaming the lowest paid workers for the troubles they’re causing the rich folks by refusing to work for scraps in a pandemic hotbox
take a wild trip with me. I want to go step by step through how a right wing narrative is engineered from embryo to playground. c’mon it’ll be fun! <it won’t be fun>
so about two weeks ago, bill anderson, owner of dale’s diner in waterville, ohio, gets a micro-burst of stories in the news on his diner’s pending closure; three different headline variants through the same outlet
now bill anderson is not just “a dude”. he’s an ex-corporate executive from a family in a long line of ohio agriculture & industry magnates.
there will be all kinds of “was this a great/terrible move” takes but that’s talking past the main point. by all accounts, the pentagon’s preferred plan was literally just stay in afghanistan forever in some varying capacity
I don’t know how you make a coherent argument against total exit when the alternative proposal is just unbound perpetual troop presence for a myriad of hypothetical scenarios
no defined metrics, no achievable deliverables, no timeframes, no measurable objectives. just stick around because bad shit will happen if we don’t and that’s how it’ll always be