mandates as an assault on their personal freedoms, rather than a means of protecting themselves and others from COVID-19.
May Chu, a clinical professor of epidemiology at the University of Colorado's School of Public Health, concurred. And those who do feel threatened will go"to great lengths to try to restore their freedom," Fitzsimons added, and efforts to change their minds won't work if those efforts are also viewed as threatening."The way we communicate is going to be very critical here," Fitzsimons said during a Duke University telebriefing this week.
That tactic may not always work, he acknowledged,"but it helps. If the person who feels their freedom is threatened feels like part of the solution, they're more likely to comply. Giving them a choice helps a lot." "If it's on the national level, it feels more distant," Vasudevan cautioned, adding that"people want facts, but more importantly they want facts from people they trust."
Of course, national figures can either reinforce acceptance or foster confusion, Anderson and Fitzsimons both noted.
Say it is both, you won’t have your freedom if you’re not alive. Clearly risking lives would be the greater atrocity. Come on people, this is not a human rights issue when people are dying.
This is from the CDC website. There is no threat. As for the mask, this is the virus and the mask magnified 25 times. STOP THE LIES
I agree! Should be voluntary!
Absolute attack on personal freedoms. Just a couple of months ago they insisted masks were useless and even harmful
Selfish!
Interesting
PROPER N95 mask helps with Covid-19. Our eyes are also an orifice for the Covid. Human habit we touch surfaces and then we touch our eyes, you can't wash your hands in the store over use of SANITIZER is not good. Whats next MANDATE GOOGLES? MANDATE NO PROTESTS WITHOUT MASK, NOT
Ppl have to change their views. This is no different than banning smoking in public places. Just trying to protect each other from getting sick and dying. We need to look out for each other.