Awareness laws and covid vaccination
Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. He certainly has all the information about everything. Or at least should have it. Source: kremlin.ru
Trust in information, trust in government. Not so long ago, Roman Skomorokhov's article "Into a new world through vaccination?" ... He noted, and rightly so, that ... people do not believe, they doubt, and that words cannot convince them in any way.
And why not?
Because we have the experience of the Soviet era, when mass campaigns were going on in the country one after another. "All to Avtodor", "Komsomolets, to the glider, from the glider to the plane!" you won't leave. And you can trust the state only in the most extreme and obvious cases, because very often it, that is, our state, was admitted, let's say, in its dishonesty.
In addition, everyone knows that the USSR lacked not only sausage and American jeans, it, first of all, lacked information.
I once already wrote here that when a plant was built in Chapaevsk to liquidate a chemical weapons, then they wrote down all the expenses, except for the costs of ... informing citizens. It was then that the Americans came with a check and asked, where is the money for PR-promotion of the project? "And all our citizens are conscientious!" - They were told in the local administration ... Under the cries of protesters, conscientious citizens in gas masks, it all ended with the fact that the plant was never opened.
The people lack information
And after all, A.S. Pushkin was called upon to reckon with the opinion of the people. Remember his immortal tragedy Boris Godunov. "The people are silent." But today he is no longer silent, he speaks very loudly. And not only speaks - he simply refuses to go for vaccinations. But this is very bad. But he says only one thing - he, the people, again, simply does not have enough information. That is, not only we do not have enough doctors, but also specialists in this area.
Are there not enough of them? As far as I know, as a teacher of PR and advertising in the recent past, there is no shortage of these personnel. So there are people? Yes, but they also lack information, they have nothing to go to the people with. Although there seems to be a lot of it, but a lot is, you know, about nothing. Because the main thing is missing - specific and comprehensive information on a vital topic. But there is none, and people are allowed to assume anything. That's how they are - people.
And now a living example, so to speak.
And it so happened that I, and my wife, granddaughter, daughter and son-in-law last fall fell ill with covid and was quite hard, but they managed without a hospital. Just on October 18, they fell ill, and on November 21, a blood test for antibodies showed that there were practically no covid bodies, but antibodies had already formed. It was written on the Internet that re-infection is possible, and none of us took off our masks anywhere. Then the vaccination campaign began, I called my attending physician and received an answer - you don't need it, you already have immunity, there is absolutely no need to overexert the body.
But then summer has come. The question arose with a summer vacation at the sea and it turned out that the Krasnodar Territory does not accept without a PCR test, and we have a queue for it in the city for a week in advance. Contacting the camp site: will a blood test for antibodies work? "It will do!"
We passed the analysis and found out that we all have antibodies to covid: some have more, some have less, but we do. And then the strangest began. I ask my sister at the reception: “Tell me, do I have a lot or a little? Should I get vaccinated or not? " And she told me: “Vaccinations are not done for the sake of vaccination (!), But for the sake of antibodies. And you have them. And whether there are many of them or not, I will not tell you that. Do not know". "Who knows? Then call the doctor! " She went to fetch a doctor and ... in a paid medical institution the doctor refused to give me an exhaustive answer for money: "Go to the polyclinic at your place of residence!"
Let's go. I ask: "Where can I find out about the level of antibodies?" "Cabinet 25". I come up - there is a queue for vaccination. “I just need to find out…” Well, you all know how the public reacts to such words in our free post-Soviet polyclinics. Wipe off, stand, think about what to do. A nurse comes out packed in a "spacesuit" and for some reason goes to the first floor. I followed her: "Sister, dear, tell me - here I have an analysis, what is my antibody level, is it necessary ..." "To room 25". "Don't you know?" "No!" “But you work there, maybe you’re out of your ears…” “To office 25”. I walked around two doctors I knew: "To room 25".
I decided to take advantage of the achievement of scientific and technological progress - the Internet. And there is only one lady, a professor from the United States, who decided to name at least some specific figures based on the results of antibody tests. But I read that Dmitry Peskov, the main PR man of our president, did not get vaccinated because he was ill with covid in May 2020, and it is also quite difficult, and he has not only antibodies, but also T-immunity. That is, he can do it, but everyone else, including those who have been ill ... should ?!
I contacted one of the readers of the VO, who was also sick, and has iconic doctors up to the head. branch. He promised me to find out and ... did not know! None of the doctors he knew said anything to him either! No specific data available. But Mr. Peskov, however, had them.
Ah, he checked himself in a special laboratory in Moscow and found out everything for sure. But why the same laboratories for conducting high-precision analyzes will not be created in all provincial centers?
Expensive tests? But we have a lot of wealthy people, a lot. And they would not spare the money to find out whether you should be a guinea pig guinea pig right now, or you can wait a little longer. For example, I would not spare money for such an analysis in my city, but going to Moscow for this is both difficult and expensive.
Surprisingly, truthful information has to be “caught” in a muddy stream of unnecessary information, literally bit by bit. We arrived to the South, settled in a comfortable room. And there is a TV. We calculated that we hadn't watched our home TV set for exactly a year and decided to look into it. Oh-oh-oh - we heard one thing: "vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate." And suddenly it was: "In Moscow, the collection of blood plasma from people who have been ill has begun, since even a small amount of antibodies can help a patient." That's how it turns out!
But ... big, small - where is the table with the number, where in the information messages there is information about the number of secondary cases and deaths, where is information about those who became ill after vaccination and who died, again, immediately after it?
And all this is not in fragmentary materials scattered all over the web, but in red lines every day. So, as it is reported today about the number of cases in the country and in each region specifically. Is it really so difficult to keep records of these indicators and, most importantly, regularly provide information to the population?
Finally, after July 20, materials began to appear on the Web about whether it was necessary to vaccinate those who had been ill and with what level of antibodies. But there and then there were materials of completely different content: "There is nothing to be measured with antibodies, vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate ..."
But isn't it easier to give a table with data on the number of antibodies, with the dynamics of their fall and recommendations for when exactly it is necessary to be vaccinated, and it is precisely for those who have been ill. Exclamations like: "Yes is better than not ..." today, few people are convinced. We live in Russia, where the norm of behavior is: "better over ... than not before ...". But in real life this is not always the case.
I meet a female security guard at a firm. "Haven't seen you for a long time!" “I was sick, I was in intensive care. Yes, there were still many people who had even been vaccinated, but they hide it! " It seems to be a typical message from the "OBS agency". But ... she was not the only one who told this. And such and such stories support the negative "opinion of the people." Moreover, the woman is simple, she would not have had enough intelligence or imagination to come up with such a thing. Only specific information from the "top" can be opposed to this information, but it is precisely that information that is not there. Hey, where are you?
I am reading one more material - "from a doctor": "I do not want to advertise test systems, all tests are different, the level is different ..." All this is true, but for some reason these tests are carried out, right? And the fact that they matter, again, is very clearly shown by the example of Mr. Peskov. That is, he is confident in the presence of T-memory and a set of antibodies in himself, and we, those who are “below”, need to be content with the knowledge that “the systems are different, that the level is different ...” This is not enough for me personally!
Where is the table? With the numerical characteristics of different test systems, with the translation of some indicators into others, so that a person can already compare everything himself and make an informed and motivated decision. Oh, the doctors themselves do not know this?
But on what, then, on what data do they base their claims about the effectiveness of their vaccines?
Let me remind you that it is not the vaccine that protects against infection and the acute course of the disease, but the level of antibodies developed due to its introduction. And it is necessary to be equal to him, and by no means to a tick on a piece of paper.
And as a conclusion: it is sad that so far in our country they have not learned how to properly manage information flows, this is done rudely, in an amateurish way, and then they are also surprised that something is going wrong with them. But in fact, everything is simple: “Oranges will not be born on the aspen tree”, and bad work will always catch the eye of people!
PS
On the air of the Russia-24 TV channel on June 30, Mr. Peskov announced that he had finally been vaccinated with the Sputnik-Light drug. He explained the reason as follows: "WHO recommends not to pay attention to antibodies and without vaccination, I would feel uncomfortable in Moscow." But his wife agrees to be vaccinated only after her “all antibodies are gone” (as told by the Daily Storm portal).
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And here's another thing, which is interesting, but I, in my hometown, will have a choice of which vaccine to vaccinate or not?
I’m trying, you know, to find out. But so far, everyone is sent to the "25-cabinet" at the place of residence, and for some reason there is only one "Sputnik V". That is, there is no choice. But it is precisely the possibility of choice that indicates the degree of development of democracy in the country. Or her underdevelopment ...
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