The vaccine is free for all Americans, it won't cost you $300.
You have to wear a mask because who's going to force people to carry vaccine cards to enter a shop.
You can't go back to work because it's still shut.
Doctors can't stop you going to work, doctors can't force you to wear a mask when you go shopping - None of these things have anything to do with doctors, so no.. I don't hate them.
This is valuable criticism and is something he needs to hear.
Surprise surprise calling people idiots and racists in an attempt to shut them up isn't a good way to change their minds and convince them to vote for you. Same mistakes made by those campaigning for Brexit. I genuinely think they should hire children to campaign for them, they'd do a better job.
The wording behind the statements is key.
I want voters to be 100% confident, to be as confident as I am in this process
While it's great that this is happening - we want confidence in our elections, it's very much an appeasement move, and exists to placate those who are complaining, it's very clear when Scott Jarrett, the county’s elections director says things like.
do not expect to find evidence of fraud
These links were not live when the comments were made, the filing was made at midnight electronically and weren't reflected online.
The breightbart article was edited to reflect this when they came online the next day - hence why those on /r/politics couldn't find it.
I know this because I was trying to find them when the story went live, because I wanted to read them too.
I get the Pfizer vaccine on Tuesday due to my work. I'm looking forward to all this covid nonsense to go away - it'll be a few months yet but we're at the beginning of the end.
Honestly I don't understand the aversion to the vaccine or why you wouldn't want it as soon as possible. There's a reason Trump's committed to 200 million vaccines before the new year in operation warp speed, as a country America should take advantage of being able to achieve such an amazing thing as having so many vaccines ready so quickly.
Form what I understand there's a benefit to getting the vaccine if you've had a virus,
Although you have a degree of protection naturally, you have vaccines can provide stronger, longer-lasting immunity than recovering from the disease itself.
This is because the vaccine targets specific immune cells that are shown to be effective against the virus, rather than the more broad approach your body takes if it encounters a disease.
Just to be an annoying pedant.
It is exactly a theory when you have evidence.
https://www.teachervision.com/theory-evidence
It isn't a theory when you don't, that's a hypothesis.
Things don't elevate from theories into fact - hypothesis elevate into theory and become accepted truths. The idea behind that is that the theory can then be refined as you find more evidence, for example with evolution we constantly find more fossils and update our understanding.
You're right of course, they're really not thinking it through.
I'm going to say something that's on reddit is traditionally downvoted to the depths.
That's not the way to go about changing people's minds, and it's the kind of comment that does incredibly well, it's groupthink and it's awful and something worth distancing from.
The last thing you say to somebody to change their mind is that they're stupid, people believe they have rational reasoning behind their thoughts and the majority of people don't think of themselves as stupid. You tell them that you think they're incapable of rational thought and they'll stop listening to you.
People who think this are not stupid - they're possibly ignorant, or perhaps informed by other sources who are telling them the election was fairly won. They don't see massive election fraud like people on this site, they see hysteria.
The way to win them over is to chat to them calmly, and be genuinely interested in what they're saying - why do they think the election wasn't stolen, what sources are they looking at? Can we verify them? Are they aware of other sources that say the opposite?
This plays great to the audience of Trump supporters, but terribly to anybody checking out what's going on on thedonald.win, which does happen a lot (hence the brigading when it happens).
Look what I'm saying is that it's defeatist to call them idiots, it means you don't believe you can change their minds. But you can if you only approach it better.
There are a number of other reasons for this worth mentioning.
- COVID-19 has a longer incubation period, so people don't know they have it as quickly and spread it more, with flu people spread it less before getting sick.
- COVID-19 is also more infectious than the flu and has a higher death rate.
- Flu has a publicly available vaccine, COVID-19 does not (yet)
- Flu is seasonal, it tends to peak after the new year, it's too early to talk about what it's like this year,
- I don't know about the statistics in America, we had record numbers of people getting vaccinated for the yearly flu, you would also expect this to reduce the numbers.
- The flu changes every year, and isn't as deadly or as infectious as the last year
There's nothing political about these statements, they're simply other things worth being aware of.
Hey now if BP it would be an apology video.
Personally I think the response should have been, "you're right" pretending that it isn't breaking his own rule is just idiotic and treats us like we're idiots, it's a huge turnoff and reeks of "some are more equal than others".
Admit your mistake, say what steps your taking to correct it, move on.