(11-06-2021, 06:05 AM)Lods link Wrote:How do you craft it Mav?
We're dealing with a vast range of ideas, experiences and intellectual capacity.
But we may be selling the Australian population a bit short.
Realistically , the message is getting through, and vaccination rates are sky high.

The main message is get vaccinated for the protection of yourself and others.
Good message.

Do we not mention that you can still get covid, you can still pass it on and still maybe get very sick.
That's important to know, otherwise the other strategies like mask wearing, check ins, social distancing are compromised.

• If I'm double-dosed, does that mean I can forget about masks, washing my hands and social distancing?
  
• If I'm double-dosed, can I still contract Covid?
  
• If I contract Covid when I'm double-dosed, can I still spread Covid?
  

(11-06-2021, 06:47 AM)Mav link Wrote:It ends up as in an unequal fight, though, when anti-vaxxers can take potshots on 1 narrow issue but pro-vaxxers are expected to repeat the totality of the information surrounding Covid-suppression policies every time they open their mouths.

Like it or not, rhetorical matters are a concern when trying to persuade people. Just ask advertisers: that's why radio ads which are required to provide the fine print in financial and other products include those details via someone speaking at a rate that makes it hard to understand what s/he's saying. Otherwise, focus is lost, as with the famous scene from The Life of Brian: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

It's a problem every student writing an essay has to confront: there's always a pet paragraph, quote or point that has to be ditched to make a better essay. And if you have 4 great points, it makes more of an impact if you can stay with a triplet.

Now, that doesn't mean that there's any lying by omission. In a thread like this, I could take you to a few hundred posts that have discussed just the point that allegedly has been hidden. And every government or health advisory online would have that information somewhere. Often the FAQ is the best place for it, e.g.

• If I'm double-dosed, does that mean I can forget about masks, washing my hands and social distancing?
  
• If I'm double-dosed, can I still contract Covid?
  
• If I contract Covid when I'm double-dosed, can I still spread Covid?
  

Or people could just Google reputable governmental or health websites to find the answers to those questions.

(11-06-2021, 09:19 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Reputable Governmental?........that would be excluding any  Government websites from Victoria via Dan Andrews Government I presume because Reputable Government doesnt apply in this case. Reputable and the Vic Government being an oxymoron...

(11-06-2021, 12:30 PM)DJC link Wrote:On what basis?

Compare the information on the Victorian Government website with that of any other State or Territory, or the Commonwealth.  They're virtually identical ... and four of our nine governments are LNP.

(11-06-2021, 12:29 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:I dont understand what all the fuss is about.

Most people are vaccinated.

The minority that are not are going to find out whether or not they should have been vaccinated in due course.

Either they are correct and those who vaccinated did so for nought.  Or getting vaccinated is correct and we are about to see natural selection at work.

To hit this home, I dont see why there is an argument against vaccination, because the majority of the counter arguments are juxtaposed.

Covid is fake.
The government want to control everyone, so they're forcing obedient tax paying citizens to take a vaccine that will kill them to protect against a man made virus that was designed to kill people, so I won't take a vaccine.

Short sighted thinking really.

I dont understand what the kerfuffle is about from those who are vaccinated.  Go live your lives in peace. 

(11-06-2021, 01:12 PM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:On this basis...
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/not-sustainable-dozens-of-covid-19-patients-missing-from-icu-figures-20211102-p59567.html
The Age on Thursday viewed data from the federal Critical Health Resource Information System, which showed there were currently 181 coronavirus patients in Victorian ICU beds - 67 more patients and almost 63 per cent higher than the 114 publicly reported by the state’s Health Department.
One senior intensive care physician has expressed frustration that Victoria’s daily ICU numbers were continually being misrepresented by the government, describing the state’s intensive care system as “so close to a crisis, it’s not funny”.