Most Americans (57%) are either "Alarmed" or "Concerned" about climate change

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[–]TemporarilyDeceased 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Most Americans were concerned or alarmed about Covid. 81% of the country was concerned enough to get at least one dose of the vaccine.

The uptake of the current vaccine is 18%.

People will be alarmed about what they're told to be alarmed about. Some catch on faster than others.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

1,144,877 Americans died of covid. Not most, but it demonstrates some level of concern was legitimate.

The uptake of the current vaccine is 18%.

29%, but you're right, the antivaxers appear to have taken a toll in deaths and long covid.

[–]TemporarilyDeceased 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not most, but it demonstrates some level of concern was legitimate.

Now that people have lived through Covid themselves, their perspectives have changed. While some people are anti-vax, most people are anti-lie-to-our-face as we've watched our President and CDC tell us that the vaccine stops transmission when there has never been any evidence that it does that, that efficacy in reducing death and serious illness is an ever-dropping number, and that our children need to get the vaccine when very few countries outside of the US recommend this. People want vaccines that work, but we can't tell anymore because our government is too focused on vaccinations as an outcome rather than health.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

While the big orange president at the time does a lot of lie-to-our-face, and that's still his MO as ex president, the CDC were saying our best knowledge at the time it was said.

Yes, that changed as we learnt things.

[–]TemporarilyDeceased 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Trump lied too, but it was Biden sitting next to Walensky that lied about transmission. The CDC had no such information. They performed no studies to test transmission and Pfizer, when asked directly if they had tested for it, said they did not. They couldn't have even extrapolated performance from other vaccines because they generally aren't sterilizing. They made it up.

The CDC also made up masking, lockdowns, and forced vaccinations. Says who? The CDC from 2016. The CDC's pandemic plan from 2016 (the most current one in effect when Covid hit) recommended against all of these things (as did the WHO's pandemic plan). They chose to do the opposite of their best practices.

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Walensky said a few things that weren't cdc advice at the time.

Can't say I've read the 2016 CDC pandemic plan. It's this the influenza pandemic plan?