05-27-2021, 12:14 AM
(05-26-2021, 08:26 AM)jamincan Wrote: I suspect there are actually quite a lot of people like her. When I went and got vaccinated, there were a lot of people my age, but there were still people getting vaccinated who were clearly eligible months ago. I was prepared to get vaccinated the day that Health Canada approved the Pfizer vaccine, but other people are going to take longer to come round. I do think one thing that has been lost in the communication to the public is that while we are individually vaccinated and individually benefit, it is also an act that benefits the whole community. It was something I constantly reminded myself as someone who was farther to the back of the queue of eligible people - that even though I wasn't getting my shot just yet, I'm also benefitting from every single other person getting a shot. The corollary is that by getting the shot, I'm benefitting the people around me too. Often times, more outward-focused community-minded motivations like that can resonate with some people/cultures more than the more individual-focused ones.
I think many people can be convinced, especially in Canada. The US is probably more tricky due to radicalization. In the end I'm medium-term optimistic about Canada.
Prof. Tara Moriarty from U of T has been running Zoom Q&A sessions: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/daily-zoom-...9-vaccines, may be useful; the link at the end still seems to work.
Here's a first-person piece in CBC where it talks about someone convincing their parents to get vaccinated: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-per...-1.6036728
I don't think there's a mass media Ontario ad. Here's the New Zealand vaccine ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcIQATtAkS0
(and in how to lie with statistics, NZ's fully-vaccinated rate at 3.82% is close to Canada's 3.99% as of yesterday; of course the first dose counts are way apart)
Quebec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfKl40Hi3pc
I've been meaning to write something comparing the different ads, I have a collection of them. I heard that in Switzerland ads just wouldn't fly.