New Poll Reveals Most Effective Language to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance (learn the latest in vaccine Newspeak)

DeBeaumont ^ | December 28, 2020 | N/A

[DoodleBob]

Rural Americans, young Republicans, young Black Americans, and young women among the least likely to get vaccinated

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The findings of a new national poll, “The Language of Vaccine Acceptance,” reveal the urgent need for political and health leaders to adjust their messaging to improve confidence in COVID-19 vaccines. The poll identifies the language that will be most effective in reaching all Americans, especially those who are currently less likely to take a vaccine, including rural Americans, Republicans age 18-49, Black Americans 18-49, and women 18-49.

The nationwide poll was conducted by the de Beaumont Foundation and pollster Frank Luntz in partnership with the American Public Health Association, the National Collaborative for Health Equity, and Resolve to Save Lives, an Initiative of Vital Strategies.

Highlights

• Sixty percent of Americans said they were either “absolutely certain” or would “probably” get the vaccine if they could now.
• The groups least likely to say they were “absolutely certain” were Americans in rural/farm communities (26%), Republicans age 18-49 (27%), Black Americans 18-49 (28%), and women 18-49 (29%). This compares with 41% of all respondents who said they were “absolutely certain” they would get the vaccine.
• When asked about the biggest concern about taking the COVID-19 vaccine, one-third of all respondents (33%) said either long-term side effects or short-term side effects. The top three statements about side effects that respondents found most reassuring were “the likelihood of experiencing a severe side effect is less than 0.5%,” mild side effects “are normal signs that their body is building protection,” and “most side effects should go away in a few days.”
• When asked what they want most from a vaccine, respondents said “a return to normal,” followed by “safety” and “immunity.”
• When asked which statement was the most convincing, 62% of respondents chose “getting vaccinated will help keep you, your family, your community, the economy, and your country safe and healthy” over “taking the vaccine is the right thing to do for yourself, for your family, your community, the economy, and the country” (38%). This highlights the need to avoid moralizing and lecturing Americans when it comes to the importance of vaccine acceptance.
• Family is by far the most powerful motivator for vaccine acceptance. Significantly more Americans said they’d be most willing to take the vaccine for their family as opposed to “your country,” “the economy,” “your community,” or “your friends.”
• The most convincing reasons to take the vaccine were “at 95 percent efficacy, this vaccine is extraordinarily effective at protecting you from the virus” and “vaccines will help bring this pandemic to an end,” and “getting vaccinated will help keep you, your family, your community, and your country healthy and safe.”

Tips to Promote Vaccine Acceptance

The poll highlights the urgent need to change our vaccine lexicon in order to help bridge key differences and rally Americans across the country toward vaccine acceptance. Key findings include:

• Tailor your messages for specific audiences.
• Explain the benefits of getting the vaccine, not just the consequences of not taking it. Focus on the need to return to normal and reopen the economy.
• Talk about the people behind the vaccine. Refer to the scientists, the health and medical experts, and the researchers – not the science, health, and pharmaceutical companies.
• Avoid judgmental language when talking about or to people who are worried about taking a vaccine. Acknowledge their concern or skepticism and offer to answer their questions.
• Black and Latinx Americans are more motivated than the general public by the potential to stop wearing masks.
• Latinx Americans were the only group more motivated by the statement that taking the vaccine is “the right thing to do” than by “getting the vaccine will keep your family and friends healthy and safe.”

“The divides along racial, urban-rural, political, and generational lines are significant when it comes to vaccine acceptance, but we’ve learned that there are certain words and phrases that will work for all audiences.” -Dr. Frank Luntz

Messages for the Most Hesitant Groups

Following are highlights of poll findings to inform effective messaging for Americans in rural/farm communities, young Republicans, young Black Americans, and young women:

• Americans in rural/farm communities have much less confidence in the safety of the vaccine (39% “a little safe” or “not at all safe” vs. 38% “very safe” or “extremely safe”).
• The generational divide is most pronounced among Black Americans when it comes to what outcome matters most in this pandemic. “Returning to normal” is the desired outcome among Black Americans under 50. But for those over 50, “saving lives” is the highest priority.
• The top priority for young Republicans is a “return to normal.” The next highest priority is to reopen the economy. Messages about personal health/safety are less impactful.
• For young women, the greatest consequence from the pandemic is equally “damage from lockdowns” and the “potential for family/friends to become ill.” Stressing how the vaccine will address both concerns at the same time is important.

“Words can save lives. Our ability to boost confidence in COVID-19 vaccines will depend largely on the language, the messengers, and methods we use to communicate to Americans that the vaccine will help keep them and their families safe and healthy.” -Dr. Brian C. Castrucci, President and CEO, de Beaumont Foundation

Poll Methodology

The nationwide survey was conducted Dec. 21-22 by pollster Frank Luntz, with 1,400 registered voters (+3% margin of error), including an oversample of 300 Black Americans and 300 Latinx Americans. A representative sample of the nation’s demographics, including age, gender, race, education, and income, were polled on the preferred words, sentences, phrases, and attributes that would encourage them to consider taking a COVID-19 vaccine.

“There is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to vaccine communication. These poll findings will help us create a roadmap for reaching people who are worried about the COVID-19 vaccine, including communities of color, who are most affected by the pandemic.” -Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Poll: The Language of Vaccine Acceptance from de Beaumont Foundation

[DoodleBob]

This is the the latest in COVID19 vaccine Newspeak.

[C210N]

It is my understanding that after taking the second dose, it is recommended to refrain from unprotected intercourse for four weeks.

[stylin19a]

Take the shot...your face will only droop for awhile

[rightwingcrazy]

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/could-an-mrna-vaccine-be-dangerous-in-the-long-term-649253

Quote from a Biological Chemistry prof, who is supportive of the vaccines coming out:

“...when asked if she would take the vaccine right away, she responded: ‘I won’t be taking it immediately – probably not for at least the coming year,” she told the Post. ‘We have to wait and see whether it really works.’”

I’m of the same mind. “Fine, but you first.”

[AndyTheBear]

My wife is a retired Molecular Biologist who worked for pharmaceutical companies as a research scientist developing vaccines. She is not anti-vax or anything like that, but she is very concerned about the safety of the Covid vaccines since they are not typical, but use some sketchy/short cut techniques. To the small extent I understood her technical explanation she is concerned about RNA based vaccines having unpredictable side effects.

[ReaganGeneration2]

“Fine, but you first.”

And those going first are “born every minute”, so we’re in good shape there

[Boogieman]

The fact that they want us to take this so badly makes me skeptical, when I normally am not a “vaccine skeptic” at all.

I’m not afraid of this virus, I do not care if I get it or not, because I’m sure I’ll survive it just like every other virus I’ve gotten in my life. Let the vulnerable groups worry about getting the vaccine. But if you tell me I MUST take the vaccine, or try to pressure me into doing it, then my “spider sense” starts tingling.

[Salamander]

Yup.

I’m just waiting for the inevitable “or else” clause.

[KC_Conspirator]

Exactly. The next step is to outright encourage neighbors to turn in one another for arrest. Oh wait...

[Salamander]

I’ll stick to my own language, which includes two words for this.

[House Atreides]

“It is my understanding that after taking the second dose, it is recommended to refrain from unprotected intercourse for four weeks.”
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Your “understanding” is wrong... but you may well know that already.

[IYAS9YAS]

Ingsoc and Hypnopædia. Never read A Brave New World before. Just picked up a three-pack that included it, along with 1984 and Animal Farm.

[shaven_llama]

> It is my understanding that after taking the second dose, it is recommended to refrain from unprotected intercourse for four weeks.

I’m out.

[proud American in Canada]

How will they address my concern: I don’t want to be a lab rat or Guinea pig.

I’m a 57 year old woman and DO NOT WANT IT.

[proud American in Canada]

LOL!

No kidding!

[Seruzawa]

[DoodleBob]

They were fiction publications when released.

[pepsi_junkie]

They lockdowned the country for nine months, criminalized effective medications, and spread as much misery as they could. Now they tell us they will allow us to resume a shadow of our prior lives (with new chinese style social credit system and government issued travel permits) when we get the vaccine. And STILL people don't want it so they need to come up with a sales campaign.

Making it mandatory in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

[daniel1212]

The question is asked,

Can society require that anti-vaxxers take all inoculations (especially measles) if they take the Covid vaccine?

My answer is,.

Yes, by requiring proof of vaccination[1][2] for an increasing amount of activities and which we are now seeing proposed or implemented,[3][4][5] and which proof can be provided (even conceivably required) online[6] or thus face restrictions on freedom of movement, employment, schooling, shopping, and overall living if refused. And which can require children to be vaccinated.[7]

However, the warrant for requiring proof of vaccination presumes that vaccination prevents infection and or transmission, which is not proven. And that even if it does not enable these then that it is more efficacious than having recovered from Covid-19 and who thus have lasting resistance.[8]

Required vaccination also presumes that asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 (which an est. large percentage are) are infectious, which is debatable[9], while 90% of positive cases show such a low level of the virus that they are not considered to be infectious. [10]

Meaning that if a person has recovered from Covid-19, and is not infectious (which requires testing), then they should not need vaccination.

Vaccinations such as against polio, TB. small pox, whooping cough etc. (and i thank God for them) are already variously required in some states for public school children[11] .

But using the same “for the common good” rational then required proof of vaccination could also be required for the flu (which I had).

However, no proof of vaccination of such infectious diseases as the above is required for such things as shopping or travel within in the US, yet as the public is increasingly conditioned to being increasingly dependent upon the government, and to providing proof of submission then I foresee this required proof of compliance as being extended to increasing requirements of assent, from Climate Change requirements to family size (as goods become scare and the government itself is in debt over its head).

Meaning a trajectory toward Communism, and eventually what we read about in Revelation 13.

Footnotes

[1] COVID-19 vaccines could become mandatory. Here’s how it might work.

[2] Andrew Yang raises eyebrows with call for proof-of-vaccination barcodes

[3] Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID Test Or Proof Of Vaccine For Concert Goers

[4] Ohio State to require vaccinations for incoming students

[5] UK bars, cinemas may require proof of COVID-19 vaccination to visit

[6] Paper beats app: Vaccine verification will likely be proven offline. Here's why.

[7] Md. Judge to Parents: Vaccinate Kids or Go to Jail

[8] Singapore scientists uncover SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in recovered COVID-19 & SARS patients, and in uninfected individuals

[9] Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is 'very rare,' WHO says

[10] Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.

[11] Required Vaccines for Child Care and School

[daniel1212]

The groups least likely to say they were “absolutely certain” were Americans in rural/farm communities (26%), Republicans age 18-49 (27%), Black Americans 18-49 (28%), and women 18-49 (29%). This compares with 41% of all respondents who said they were “absolutely certain” they would get the vaccine.

And posters on Free Republic. I myself see not need to and have no intention to. If they offer it locally and for free, I could try to it though to see what it does.