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BGgungame t1_j2m69o0 wrote

Seems logical. My country had really bad vaccination numbers, also most people don’t trust the government or the state as a whole due to corruption, etc. And our national health service is part of the state.

When an entity you don’t trust is telling you to do something you are not familiar with you’d probably not do it.

Not to mention the message in the beginning of the pandemic were terrible. We had the prime minister come out and say to not buy masks and stock up, because they didn’t work. Then a couple of months later he backtracked and said we should all wait masks, they just lied so people wouldn’t panic and buy out all the masks and create a shortage for healthcare workers.

Which is fair, but it sure as hell won’t increase the trust in you.

And then you had many mixed messages from the WHO too.

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Zetkin8 t1_j2qr55v wrote

I don't know which country you live in, but did anyone really say this?

> to not buy masks and stock up, because they didn’t work

Without any qualifier? I remember they said in March 2020 that it doesn't make sense because there were only 100 known cases in the country. The chances of meeting anyone with Covid in the streets were practically zero. At the same time, health professionals had a much higher chance of encounter. They also said that surgical masks provide little protection to the wearer. With only ~100 infected in the country (or even thousands) it wouldn't make sense to wear them and create a shortage in the health care system where they're actually needed.

I have no idea what the communication was in your country. In mine people still claim the same as you and they're either lying or have a severe lack of reading comprehension. Nobody said "Masks don't work, period."

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