Journalists and the incentives of digital journalism have played a big role in devaluing the institutions claiming to represent or explain "The Science." The person many of us should be upset with when people refuse to get vaccinated is in the mirror.
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1419700875459768325
You can't routinely insult people's values and their intelligence and then just expect them to do what you say. Humans don't work that way, nor should they. But our media and political elites expect obeisance from those they openly show contempt for.
"Germs don't spread at our virtuous protests but they come and spread a lot at your crappy gatherings, now go fight the spread exactly how I tell you to even though I've been wrong a lot about this, what you don't want to, you rube, how dare you, you anti-science ignoramus?"
And then, the next day: "Wow people seem immune to being convinced about the vaccine!" Womp, womp.
It turns out, showing massive contempt for half your country isn't just a moral crisis but a health hazard. I guess it wasn't obvious that maybe don't treat people's values like trash from positions of power because you might need to convince them of something important one day!
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