It was interesting to me that only 10% of the people eligible for boosters had gone and gotten one in Vermont, at most count. I wonder how they'll feel when the booster is mandated?
It was interesting to me that only 10% of the people eligible for boosters had gone and gotten one in Vermont, at most count. I wonder how they'll feel when the booster is mandated?
I wonder if the survey was distorted by the desire to provide the perceived "correct" answer. The reality might be that most Covid-vaccinated people perceive the groupthink to be agnostic on boosters, and thus feel no anxiety about remaining at two shots.
Your skepticism of a survey is well-grounded. In general they are unreliable. Not the least is that the surveyed often tell the poll-taker what they think he wants to hear. There is a reason that scientists prefer objective measures. As a trivial example, if you were able to survey every arrested person on a given Saturday night in a big city as to what drugs were in his system, and then compare these answers to blood or urine tests, I suspect you would find a slight discrepancy to say the least ЁЯдб. Surveys may have some utility, perhaps to survey opinion, but nothing beats impartial measurements of the real world.
The "real world," even if it is the ultimate in objectivity, is not much less enigmatic than the social human - nothing can be measured without being changed. Only in chemistry and nuclear physics are extrapolation from experiment truly possible.
Or, it could just be that the official booster clinics are so far apart in VT that people are just still defaulting to walk-in fraud. I think the confusion around the mixed messaging for Moderna and Janssen recipients is also slowing things, or pushing boosters into the black market of walk-in fraud.
It was interesting to me that only 10% of the people eligible for boosters had gone and gotten one in Vermont, at most count. I wonder how they'll feel when the booster is mandated?
https://vtdigger.org/2021/10/05/fewer-than-10000-vermonters-have-opted-for-pfizer-booster-shots-so-far/
Interesting. That contradicts my own wild speculations as well as the Atlantic survey released the other day (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/psychological-benefits-covid-19-boosters/620259/).
I wonder if the survey was distorted by the desire to provide the perceived "correct" answer. The reality might be that most Covid-vaccinated people perceive the groupthink to be agnostic on boosters, and thus feel no anxiety about remaining at two shots.
Your skepticism of a survey is well-grounded. In general they are unreliable. Not the least is that the surveyed often tell the poll-taker what they think he wants to hear. There is a reason that scientists prefer objective measures. As a trivial example, if you were able to survey every arrested person on a given Saturday night in a big city as to what drugs were in his system, and then compare these answers to blood or urine tests, I suspect you would find a slight discrepancy to say the least ЁЯдб. Surveys may have some utility, perhaps to survey opinion, but nothing beats impartial measurements of the real world.
The "real world," even if it is the ultimate in objectivity, is not much less enigmatic than the social human - nothing can be measured without being changed. Only in chemistry and nuclear physics are extrapolation from experiment truly possible.
Or, it could just be that the official booster clinics are so far apart in VT that people are just still defaulting to walk-in fraud. I think the confusion around the mixed messaging for Moderna and Janssen recipients is also slowing things, or pushing boosters into the black market of walk-in fraud.