I don’t think parents who were otherwise planning on immunizing their children will change their minds because the new host of Jeopardy! Is against it. I do think parents who are leaning against vaccinating their children but are persuadable will become less persuadable because the new host of Jeopardy! Is against it.
On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 6:51 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiF7UgyDC0XmwBd1-zCY2Uq_N%3D%2BouiLvTqfh07YMJXN9Nw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAKGtkYLtd5u0_Q6J%3D7MyMhdd8Yiw3W_szSdSRm16%2BPNHghfR_w%40mail.gmail.com.
