A lot of poor and uneducated people don’t need help understanding that vaccines are real and helpful. Everyone has exposure to the literal health experts in their community (doctors) who recommend them.
I’m not even sure what you’re thinking the wealthy urban educated could do that literal face to face doctors have failed at. The problem is the politicized misinformation that’s served up by algorithms and convinces idiots of all education and wealth levels that their doctor is part of a 5G conspiracy to give their kid autism. RFK never lacked in wealth, education, or engagement from rich educated urbanites.
And now RFK is trying to muddy the waters between politicians and health officals/healthcare workers so that uneducated/poor folks dont know who to trust
It’s not a lack of ability to understand that’s at issue, it’s a lack of trust. Poor, rural, uneducated conservatives don’t doubt the intelligence of doctors, they mistrust them.
Recall that doctors once told pregnant women to take Thalidomide (warning, don’t click on the article about the scandal unless you’re prepared to see disturbing pictures). More recently, the Surgeon General lied to the public about the effectiveness of masks for preventing COVID transmission.
When experts lie to the public, the loss of trust can last for generations. It’s a huge problem that is all too casually dismissed.
There is so much corruption and industry capture that it can be genuinely difficult to separate the real, unbiased science from “Big Pharma make number go up”. Telling people they are uneducated dipshits and to just “follow the science” ignores and further degrades the fundamental lack of trust.
The problem is the politicized misinformation that’s served up by algorithms and convinces idiots of all education and wealth levels that their doctor is part of a 5G conspiracy to give their kid autism.
So is the problem the misinformation or the “idiots of all education and wealth levels?” If we get rid of the misinformation, will those people then stop being idiots? If not, what should be done with all of these idiots? What causes idiocy? Is it genetic or biological in some way?
The wealthy urban educated liberals could push for better education in rural areas, by any means possible. Donate to schools in poor counties. If you teach, go out there to teach for at least some of your career. Go to their school board meetings, like the MAGA nut jobs who go to ones in liberal areas.
A lot of poor and uneducated people don’t need help understanding that vaccines are real and helpful. Everyone has exposure to the literal health experts in their community (doctors) who recommend them.
I’m not even sure what you’re thinking the wealthy urban educated could do that literal face to face doctors have failed at. The problem is the politicized misinformation that’s served up by algorithms and convinces idiots of all education and wealth levels that their doctor is part of a 5G conspiracy to give their kid autism. RFK never lacked in wealth, education, or engagement from rich educated urbanites.
And now RFK is trying to muddy the waters between politicians and health officals/healthcare workers so that uneducated/poor folks dont know who to trust
It’s not a lack of ability to understand that’s at issue, it’s a lack of trust. Poor, rural, uneducated conservatives don’t doubt the intelligence of doctors, they mistrust them.
Recall that doctors once told pregnant women to take Thalidomide (warning, don’t click on the article about the scandal unless you’re prepared to see disturbing pictures). More recently, the Surgeon General lied to the public about the effectiveness of masks for preventing COVID transmission.
When experts lie to the public, the loss of trust can last for generations. It’s a huge problem that is all too casually dismissed.
This opinion piece from the BMJ entitled “The illusion of evidence based medicine” sets the stage: https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o702.
There is so much corruption and industry capture that it can be genuinely difficult to separate the real, unbiased science from “Big Pharma make number go up”. Telling people they are uneducated dipshits and to just “follow the science” ignores and further degrades the fundamental lack of trust.
So is the problem the misinformation or the “idiots of all education and wealth levels?” If we get rid of the misinformation, will those people then stop being idiots? If not, what should be done with all of these idiots? What causes idiocy? Is it genetic or biological in some way?
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The wealthy urban educated liberals could push for better education in rural areas, by any means possible. Donate to schools in poor counties. If you teach, go out there to teach for at least some of your career. Go to their school board meetings, like the MAGA nut jobs who go to ones in liberal areas.