alt Hacker NewsI think it's a bit more nuanced than that. Especially when the lies were so obvious. You can't get COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie), You can't spread COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie). If they would have been honest from the start -- that you are less likely to need to take up limited hospital beds if you got the vaccine, I think people would have responded better.
Then there were the obviously stupid mask rules.... wear a mask, stand in lane, separate... but as soon as you sit down at a table, you can take off the mask and now all of the sudden the disease magically can't spread.
No gathering outside, no going to church, even outside if you provide plenty of space or we will arrest you.
However, riots lining up body to body for the cause of the week is perfectly fine without masks.
The hypocrisy of the whole situation was obvious and undeniable. I'm sure you are partly true with some of the Trump hard core lover people.... but there are a LOT of silent majority in the middle that don't like Trump but dislike the lies and hypocricy much much more.
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Nobody said you couldn't get COVID if you got vaccinated. I lived through it, I paid attention, you can't lie to me about that. There was some talk about 90+% effective, that means it's good, but not smallpox vaccine good. Nobody, but nobody said you couldn't spread it if you were vaccinated.
> You can't get COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie), You can't spread COVID if you get the vaccine (A lie).
I don’t recall this. My memory was that the messaging was primarily around reduced risk of serious illness /death and reduced risk of transmission.
I do recall the CDC or whoever in the early days saying not to wear masks, which felt like an obvious lie, I presumed at the time to protect supplies for medical professionals. I also recall it was a few years before they acknowledged it was airborne, despite having sufficient evidence it may be quite some time (and previously messaging was that it was affirmatively not airborne).
The pandemic sucked but the politics around it were just so gross and disheartening. Anyhow, this is all way off topic for the original article.