On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 5:44 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom makes a valid point that not all anti Vaxers are idiots. I spent a > significant percentage of my time these last 8 months talking to the > vaccine resistant about the reasons for their position (My sample is biased > of Flores, but a lot of the people I work with are needle/injection > phobic, not stupid or skeptical, and look for rationalizations to cover > their fear). > > But I’m not sure I agree that someone like Bialik getting a prominent > platform will be without consequence. Every month a small but steady > trickle of Americans who had been anti vax cross over and get vaccinated. > Someone like Bialik getting mainstreamed, even if she never talks about it > on the show (I’m sure she won’t, unless perhaps to encourage vaccination) > could potentially slow that conversion rate somewhat, validating the > concerns and fears of the resistant. > > I have other reasons for thinking she is not the best choice. >
>From what I understand, he anti-vax involvement is against MMR and other childrens' vaccines and not adults and COVID. If she mentioned that or her other non-mainstream beliefs during the taping of Jeopardy I'm sure they'd be edited out of the broadcast. I'm not belittling the return of preventable childhood diseases like measles but I just don't see the part a choice of game show host has in that public health effort. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiF7UgyDC0XmwBd1-zCY2Uq_N%3D%2BouiLvTqfh07YMJXN9Nw%40mail.gmail.com.
