The "elites" (public health officials, FDA officials, vaccine makers, university researchers, media reporters) need to take a look in the mirror on this. For many years, the official line has been that vaccines are safe, effective, and nothing goes wrong. People who suffer side-effects of vaccines are now able to find other people similarly suffering in internet forums, where they couldn't in the pre-internet era. With time it becomes exposed that the elites are not being fully truthful, and are lying or telling half-truths in service of their objectives. It should be no surprise if the elites are willing to lie, then the general population start to question how much of what they are told is a lie.
As a result of the COVID debacle, there is wider spread knowledge that not all vaccines are the same. We were promised vaccines that carried no risk, and would prevent transmission of COVID. We all watched as the narrative changed, while never having it be acknowledged by officials that they were wrong (or perhaps lied in what they considered service to the "greater good").
If anything RFK Jr's popularity stems from the elites squandering the trust of the people by lying. It's on them to pursue honesty if they want to regain a position of trust.
but the people demanding "honesty" get their medical advice from people like Jenny McCarthy, so it's hard to say that they would listen to facts to begin with.
Step 1 would be for the medical establishment to acknowledge that there are risks and potential problems with vaccines. Jenny McCarthy is a symptom of the decline in trust of the medical establishment, not the cause. The medical establishment's response to vaccine hesitancy is to discount potential harms, and refuse to honestly engage with the potential draw backs. Any hint of skepticism is met with articles like this one. That isn't the way to build trust. Also implying anyone questioning whether they're being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, is a dummy, is not the way to build trust.
Why, specifically, do you think a bunch of people with no medical training and no ability to understand medical literature should be “listened to” about things they absolutely do not, at all, understand?
Sorry that it makes you feel bad to be told you don’t know what you’re talking about, but the fact, ultimately, remains.
The "elites" (public health officials, FDA officials, vaccine makers, university researchers, media reporters) need to take a look in the mirror on this. For many years, the official line has been that vaccines are safe, effective, and nothing goes wrong. People who suffer side-effects of vaccines are now able to find other people similarly suffering in internet forums, where they couldn't in the pre-internet era. With time it becomes exposed that the elites are not being fully truthful, and are lying or telling half-truths in service of their objectives. It should be no surprise if the elites are willing to lie, then the general population start to question how much of what they are told is a lie.
As a result of the COVID debacle, there is wider spread knowledge that not all vaccines are the same. We were promised vaccines that carried no risk, and would prevent transmission of COVID. We all watched as the narrative changed, while never having it be acknowledged by officials that they were wrong (or perhaps lied in what they considered service to the "greater good").
If anything RFK Jr's popularity stems from the elites squandering the trust of the people by lying. It's on them to pursue honesty if they want to regain a position of trust.
but the people demanding "honesty" get their medical advice from people like Jenny McCarthy, so it's hard to say that they would listen to facts to begin with.
Step 1 would be for the medical establishment to acknowledge that there are risks and potential problems with vaccines. Jenny McCarthy is a symptom of the decline in trust of the medical establishment, not the cause. The medical establishment's response to vaccine hesitancy is to discount potential harms, and refuse to honestly engage with the potential draw backs. Any hint of skepticism is met with articles like this one. That isn't the way to build trust. Also implying anyone questioning whether they're being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, is a dummy, is not the way to build trust.
Why, specifically, do you think a bunch of people with no medical training and no ability to understand medical literature should be “listened to” about things they absolutely do not, at all, understand?
Sorry that it makes you feel bad to be told you don’t know what you’re talking about, but the fact, ultimately, remains.
Vaccination rates embody the core political problem right now.
There are two different realities people are living in, but only one of them is grounded in reality.
What is the system that creates this schism and how do you resolve it?