> I don't understand how to deal with deniers anymore.
Consider smoking kills 1,300 per day (480,000 per year) in the US. That isn’t a contagious virus it’s a product you literally have to purchase and use for decades and people still do it. Think about before it was common knowledge that smoking killed and how it was ingrained in culture and how it took decades to remove smoking from air planes, school, restaurants, even hospitals. Even now with knowledge of the risk/dangers and social changes 1,300 die everyday.
I’m not trying to make it a whataboutism, but to highlight the difficulty in getting people to change their behavior even if it means death. For example, this virus seems to kill mostly people with chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity) which are all dietary diseases and responsible for about 1M deaths per year in the US, this is common knowledge and the fact this virus is most deadly to that group...yet how many people will actually take steps to change and improve their diet and lifestyle?
To your point/question I’m not sure how you change people’s behavior...I mean we could right now eradicate all new cases of type 2 diabetes moving forward by getting people to eat a certain way, but people would rather argue about that than actually curb their behavior
Consider smoking kills 1,300 per day (480,000 per year) in the US. That isn’t a contagious virus it’s a product you literally have to purchase and use for decades and people still do it. Think about before it was common knowledge that smoking killed and how it was ingrained in culture and how it took decades to remove smoking from air planes, school, restaurants, even hospitals. Even now with knowledge of the risk/dangers and social changes 1,300 die everyday.
I’m not trying to make it a whataboutism, but to highlight the difficulty in getting people to change their behavior even if it means death. For example, this virus seems to kill mostly people with chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity) which are all dietary diseases and responsible for about 1M deaths per year in the US, this is common knowledge and the fact this virus is most deadly to that group...yet how many people will actually take steps to change and improve their diet and lifestyle?
To your point/question I’m not sure how you change people’s behavior...I mean we could right now eradicate all new cases of type 2 diabetes moving forward by getting people to eat a certain way, but people would rather argue about that than actually curb their behavior