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| Front page today’s South China Morning Post |
That’s the front page of today’s paper. No context. No mention that that’s just 0.002% of all jabs and that “few have resulted serious side effects”. And if you read down, you find that of those 90 cases doctors are not even sure they’re due to the vaccination. Talk about a beat up in the headline. And not in the tiniest bit helpful. The
online version of the headline has a bit more context. But some people will photo the print headline and pass it around in social media. Not helpful.
Vaccine hesitancy is a thing here in Hong Kong with only 25% having had a jab. (Though within Asia, that’s not too bad). A big reason is scare stories in mainstream and social media. The US and UK are outliers with their high rates.
We had a big chance to up the rate with the forthcoming $HK 5,000 give away to all Hong Kong residents. Couldn’t they have tied this to having had a shot? They didn’t though. Handouts begin in August.
