Let’s say you had a really REALLY big opportunity to present for 40 minutes on a platform that would reach millions. What one slide of data would you share, to convince the masses that SARS2 is worth doing EVERYTHING possible to avoid infection, & if you do, don’t get it again (play the long game)? - ThreadSky

drseanmullen.bsky.social • 19 days ago

Let’s say you had a really REALLY big opportunity to present for 40 minutes on a platform that would reach millions.

What one slide of data would you share, to convince the masses that SARS2 is worth doing EVERYTHING possible to avoid infection, & if you do, don’t get it again (play the long game)?

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dianachard.bsky.social•19 days ago

Echoing those who are saying data is unlikely to sway people. Have you seen this game?: https://www.helloworlds.ca/the-long-covid-game/

drseanmullen.bsky.social•19 days ago

I used it in my class 2 weeks ago. It doesn't work as well for me (as it does the instructor who created it).

dianachard.bsky.social•19 days ago

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undeadminotaur.bsky.social•19 days ago

This is a really hard question. I read your open letter to M. It was brilliant, but the comments I saw were full of misinformation and disbelief.

I am clueless. I wish you the best you find answers!

defeline.bsky.social•19 days ago

It’s neural degenerative properties. Specifically, how long it can take for a person to go from their “normal” state to needing Dementia/Alzheimer’s care.
(Can U tell this happened to my lovely mom?) I will curse #SARSCoV2 till the day I die!😡🤬

blindbuster.bsky.social•13 days ago

I don’t know about a slide but this is the news article (WaPo, April 2020) that made me realize no one is immune, that this virus is basically airborne strokes. Later learned it’s airborne Alzheimers, airborne heart attacks, and airborne CovAIDS (etc, etc) too

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/

funkishen.bsky.social•19 days ago

I honestly don't know at this point. It doesn't seem that anything gets through to people.

I guess maybe the first slide should be to ask everyone to remove the hands from over the ears and stop singing "lalala" any time it's is mentioned?

wailofatale.bsky.social•19 days ago

Immune deficiency. We need to let them know we are looking at another AIDS epidemic by breathing virus in the air.

dizmck.bsky.social•19 days ago

Maybe you could accompany the words with a few actual slides of people intubated in the ICU or a series of people with long covid lying in bed in a dark room over the course of 5 years. Some people are visual learners. Most people are no kind of learners.

rebeccabingham.bsky.social•19 days ago

The movie “Unrest” did it for me. Because women have nearly 40% more chance of experiencing #LongCovid? No.

Having a child removed from parents because they “enabled” her to stay sick w/ #MECFS, at home in violation of school attendance laws??!! THAT FIRED ME UP! 49:50 https://youtu.be/RLQNfsTih10?si=0z9Mj01Cj2wWrLDJ

socalio.bsky.social•19 days ago

No amount of evidence will change their mind, but if I had to pick a slide, I'd be one of these two by @daniellebeckman.bsky.social and @jpweiland.bsky.social

reverseyourmind.bsky.social•19 days ago

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The brain.

I will focus on explaining how COVID damages the brain.

zelbel.bsky.social•19 days ago

gotta shiw wastewater data first, bc most ppl think covid is spreading less now (as opposed to more since Omicron came around.)

them maybe the 60 million long covid sufferers estimate from CDC and stats on how that's effected the economy.

sadly, i think ppl may care more about economy than...

zelbel.bsky.social•19 days ago

show*

zelbel.bsky.social•19 days ago

brain damage.😬

lmh82.bsky.social•19 days ago

I don't think data is the way to reach people. They are making these decisions emotionally and not with logic or reason. You have to find a way to appeal to their emotional reactions to it.

drseanmullen.bsky.social•19 days ago

I'm talking about an audience receptive to data.

lmh82.bsky.social•19 days ago

Are you stressing any one mitigation the most?

bluetimes.bsky.social•19 days ago

Hard question. Perhaps a simple slide that at a high levels shows all the areas of the body that are potentially affected by COVID (which is just about the entire body). Even if you reach a few people it’s worth a try.

paulamarieyoung.bsky.social•19 days ago

bluetimes.bsky.social•19 days ago

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bluetimes.bsky.social•19 days ago

GREAT slide! Keeping this to show to those who I talk with who think Covid is “just a cold”. Thank you!

millymia8.bsky.social•18 days ago

The Harvard Medical blue slides could be impactful. Or the British Heart Foundation ‘Covid and the Heart, it Spares Nobody’

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