CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Yep, this is the problem with combatting disinformation. If you don't make the message simple enough to put on a bumper sticker, then no one will bother to listen to the message (& even if they do, the qualifications will be enough to turn them off). The misinformation and disinformation on social media is so persuasive as the messages are so strong and unqualified: Vaccines don't work! Vaccines will kill you! Ivermectin is better than vaccines!

But of course as soon as the message is crafted for the social media audience, the anti-vaxxers will take advantage of the fact the message isn't nuanced. And we have the preposterous idea that if double-vaccinated people can still catch Covid, there's no real difference between them and unvaccinated people.

It reminds me of an election campaign in which Barry Jones had the education portfolio and had produced a large blackboard on which he had a flow chart of various policy proposals and their effects. It was classic Barry Jones as he was a noted egghead (and he came to prominence as a quiz champion in Pick a Box). But of course such a complex presentation was just asking for ridicule and the Liberals were happy to oblige.