Our #pandemic global strategy:
"If I paint a rosy picture, will you promise not to cry?"
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"If I paint a rosy picture, will you promise not to cry?"
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Written a decade ago, the article was about how clinicians too often falsely reassured patients w/terminal #cancer that treatment was working just fine.
There are many parallels b/w cancer cancer, the pandemic, & climate change.
Mortality salience elicits #denial.
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There are many parallels b/w cancer cancer, the pandemic, & climate change.
Mortality salience elicits #denial.
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Don't believe me?
Look back at the 1960s. Only 12% of patients were even told they had #cancer.
Society will tolerate BS for a long time to avoid immediate discomfort. So too w/the pandemic. Hardly a mask in sight & reinfections mount.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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Look back at the 1960s. Only 12% of patients were even told they had #cancer.
Society will tolerate BS for a long time to avoid immediate discomfort. So too w/the pandemic. Hardly a mask in sight & reinfections mount.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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In the U.S., the "rosy picture" differs by political ideology.
Today in the NEJM: The conservative rosy picture is that COVID is like a cold or the flu. The liberal rosy picture is that leaders are doing just fine by pushing vax-and-relax.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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Today in the NEJM: The conservative rosy picture is that COVID is like a cold or the flu. The liberal rosy picture is that leaders are doing just fine by pushing vax-and-relax.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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The "rosy picture" strategy almost always fails, and if we settle for rosy on COVID, we're going to need a lot more roses.
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