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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 23, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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That's the kind of thing anti-vaxxers say!

It's also the kind of thing people who notice that - like with covid - very strict medical policies that you must follow or else you are killing kids and grandma have caveats that only get mentioned when you ask questions, like 'does the flu vaccine actually prevent you from getting the flu' and 'does the US needs extra vaccines on its schedule because it has a larger underclass than Denmark' say.

What I want is for you to acknowledge that this is a trust issue, and then to stop exacerbating said trust issue. Fundamentally I think doctors are going to have to drop this 'everyone who isn't a doctor is a mouth breathing retard who should shut the fuck up and do what I say' shtick if you are concerned about vaccine skepticism or the US public's faith in doctors, because it's not going to get better with RFK Jr in charge and advances in ai. Dropping a pdf of tables and acronyms written in the inscrutable language of your guild used to cow people into submission, but now that tactic is exposed you can't get trust back by stubbornly maintaining it.