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Last Checked March 11, 2021

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Mon Feb 22 19:08:43 +0000 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

It's a big win though when you can get a vaccine-skeptical person to take one. They may be the sort of person who is already going to crowded bars, not wearing masks, or has to work in crowded indoor settings. For them & their community, a vaccine may be the only line of defense. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

What makes this extra complicated is that the people who are most eager to take vaccines are generally also people who (both by choice and by privilege) are most likely to also undertake other protective behaviors. So that isn't necessarily the group you need to be more careful. — PolitiTweet.org

Michael Rosenberg @MJRosenbergDad

@NateSilver538 Public health officials, rightly or wrongly, imagine their audience as Florida Man, eager to do the… https://t.co/sUTHfA4cIg

Posted Feb. 22, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

So the net effect of this messaging may be to make vaccine-eager people superfluously careful to the point of being bad for their mental health, while Florida Man says "screw it, why bother with the vaccine at all" and keeps causing community spread. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 22, 2021

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