新型コロナウイルス対策の失敗 その４５

Takaya Suzuki MD, PhD @suzuki_takaya

ワクチン供給側は生産-ディストリビューション-実証と大変なコストがかかりますが、ディスインフォメーション側はほぼコストゼロなので圧倒的に有利。

Takaya Suzuki MD, PhD @suzuki_takaya

こういう背景も。 Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccine theguardian.com/media/2021/may…

Takaya Suzuki MD, PhD @suzuki_takaya

僅か12のアカウントがSNS全体の65%のワクチンデマを供給中だそうです。 Just 12 People Are Behind Most Vaccine Hoaxes On Social Media, Research Shows : NPR npr.org/2021/05/13/996…

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

Goffman's work, along w/100s of articles that have built on it, suggests that many victims of con artists make a conscious choice to protect themselves socially & emotionally at the expense of others. "Be kind" does not require that we accept this unkind, even deadly choice. 16/x

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

The "moral failure" of the COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting from ICU beds is to prioritize saving face over saving other peoples' lives. They could do the latter by telling the truth & exposing the con, saying "COVID is real, get vaccinated." But they don't. 15/x pic.twitter.com/JkKMeV9lsh

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

But there's a crucial difference between a mark & most others condemned to social-death-by-humiliation: the mark can simply deny the con, claiming they were "in on it" the whole time. This saves their pride & cheats social death, but allows the con to continue unchecked. 14/x pic.twitter.com/6IGsZkdwv9

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

So humiliating, in fact, that Goffman describes it as a form of social death: the body survives, but the person-in-society is destroyed by the admission of having been conned. It's a condition Goffman likens to being laid off, deported or dumped. Very relatable, & pitiable. 13/x pic.twitter.com/Yxx2fxnOq2

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

Goffman's key observation, kind of obvious when you see it in B&W on the page, is that eventually all marks come to understand they've been conned. Then what? As Goffman explains, they almost never complain or report the fraud to the authorities. Why? Bc it's humiliating. 12/x pic.twitter.com/Idei1yUtKi

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

In 2022, those of us who do research on fraud & con artists will celebrate the 70th birthday of the seminal article in our field: "On Cooling the Mark Out," by Erving Goffman, a giant in 20th century sociology. This text explains where we are now. infofranpro.wdfiles.com/local--files/1…) 11/x pic.twitter.com/8WQ3gmDAl4

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

Here's where social scientific research on fraud becomes very useful. Among other things, it allows us to detail the experience of the "marks" (people who get conned) in such a way that we don't flatten them into helpless paper dolls, robbing them of agency & motive. 10/x

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

But how to argue against "be kind?" Many people may have misgivings about that approach, but are afraid to voice them bc the implicit alternative is "be UNkind;" as social psych research has shown for decades, we all want to believe we're "good people." Even bad guys do. 9/x pic.twitter.com/JVSDTRwTl5

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

It's fairly easy to dispatch the "disrespect" claim: it implodes on contact w/the RW's long-standing insistence on personal responsibility. They deny that any individual's choices can be blamed on another's actions...hence, no amount of "disrespect" should matter here. 8/x

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

Both the RW & LW absolve pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers of responsibility for harming others (& themselves) on the premise that they are "victims"--either of "disrespect" or of a "con" perpetrated by RW media, Trump, etc. Both approaches treat these individuals as helpless. 7/x

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

One might ask of the National Review why they don't publish articles suggesting that drunk drivers, or people who knowingly transmit HIV to sexual partners w/out disclosing their status, need to be "persuaded" not to harm others? Why doesn't NR demand respect for them? 6/x pic.twitter.com/tKMjllSRpK

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

But now, w/COVID having claimed at least 610,000 US lives, with more deaths coming from the Delta variant & no end in sight, there have been increasing calls to "empathize" w/pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers (from LW), coupled with calls to "respect their liberty" (from RW). 5/x pic.twitter.com/eMSN9geu82

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

Clearly, Americans *can* be rational problem-solvers when it comes to some situations that require weighing the claims of personal liberty vs collective survival. No one (that I know of) argues that we should address the problem of drunk driving w/kindness...or executions. 4/x

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

Both approaches have become almost completely divorced from the American pragmatic tradition (ex:Pierce, Dewey & Wm James) which would lead us to ask: what do we want to accomplish & what will actually work? Those are pretty impt questions when millions of lives are at stake. 3/x pic.twitter.com/UttXkBjDUF

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Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

One of the recurrent problems in US popular discourse on the proper response to crises is that it's often assumed there are only two options: 1) crack down hard, damn the consequences (usually assoc w/RW) 2) "just be kind; kindness is everything😊🌈❤️" (usually assoc w/LW) 2/x

Brooke Harrington @EBHarrington

THREAD: As news stories drop about COVID+ pandemic deniers & anti-vaxxers ranting defiantly from ICU beds, let's review what fraud research suggests abt the responsibility we should attribute to them for their condition & the ms they send. Are they victims we should pity? 1/x pic.twitter.com/jrmo6zQ7BL

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu

Best thread I have read in months. A model for scholars seeking to adapt social science to social media. twitter.com/ebharrington/s…

asano7 @asano7

テロだよね。 twitter.com/jcast_news/sta…

J-CASTニュース @jcast_news

「みんなで外せば怖くない！」ノーマスク集団が「車両ジャック」予告　京阪電鉄「社内で対応検討」 #マスク #京阪電鉄 #新型コロナウイルス j-cast.com/2021/07/134161…

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J-CASTニュース @jcast_news

「みんなで外せば怖くない！」ノーマスク集団が「車両ジャック」予告　京阪電鉄「社内で対応検討」 #マスク #京阪電鉄 #新型コロナウイルス j-cast.com/2021/07/134161…

盛田隆二 🌐™ @product1954

選手村で初のクラスター5人。大会関係者の感染者累計は322人 このうち何人が都内の五輪対応病院に入院しているのか組織委は隠蔽している。菅首相は「中等症2（酸素投与）で入院。中等症1以下は自宅療養」と明言。これは日本国民の入院基準であり、五輪選手は別基準で軽症でも入院するのか説明すべきだ pic.twitter.com/IMCzFiawv4

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盛田隆二 🌐™ @product1954

東京五輪選手村で初のクラスターか、ギリシャ選手団 アーティスティックスイミング選手団12人のうち5人が感染。また新たに大会関係者29人感染。累計322人 このうち何人が都内の五輪対応病院に入院しているのかなど、組織委は隠し続けている。メディアは情報公開請求されたし news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_ne…