<div dir="ltr">they're people that simply rather live without the recommendation of "top scientists" & government funded projects. To be told what you need to do & take at specific times in specific places by specific companies is much like a chicken in a coop. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 10:18 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There are millions of people who won't get vaccinations, Covid or otherwise, despite recommendations from top scientists. Are they antiscience?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Maybe not. I read of people saying things like "I hear horror stories....."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So while we may think of this as a bit too paranoid, they are duly concerned that they are not being told the whole story. This idea has persisted in UFO stories. (the government has released a lot of that and people are still saying they aren't being told the whole truth).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It's true that we aren't told by doctors the full extent of what can happen to us when we take a pill or undergo some procedure. If they did, many more people would opt out. Did you ever read all the possible side effects of taking aspirin? Horror story for sure. Many people would quit taking it, along with just about every drug there is. Of course the idea for people like us is the probability of these things happening. We can judge for ourselves - mostly. We know that getting a shot of penicillin is almost totally safe. But probability has beens shown in recent years not to be understood by most people, including physicians. The average person has no chance. They avoided airplanes after 9/11 and so many more people died in car wrecks than would have died in airplane crashes.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Now you will say that people are placing more faith in gossip than in medical journals. And they are - most of them can't interpret medical journals or probability, as noted above.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Then there's this: in a way we are asking people to take a shot to protect others as well as themselves. This is asking a lot of selfish human beings, who have read that the virus is mostly no big deal - in some cases without symptoms. And the fatality rate is low.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">While I reckon that many people are antiscience, I would not accuse the average person of it who doesn't get the vaccines. It's just more complicated than that. bill w</div></div>
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