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Dev Notes…

Old textB on shop front page, Halloween V1 (see other Vs below)
This year we have one thing to say to those superheroic vaccine scientists. | doctors. | nurses.| clinical trial volunteers. | 270 million Americans who vaxxed. | 5.6 BILLION planet-mates who vaxxed. | people who vaccinated to protect others. | people who vaxxed to protect themselves. | people who vaccinated in round 1. | people who vaxxed in round 501.

Thank you! Just thank you.
We stand together with you.

Old text from Halloween page
In a world where revisionist history twists public understanding, where vaccine cynics imagine they’re a majority, and where our ability to navigate the NEXT pandemic depends on public clarity, we’re flooding the zone with vaccine gratitude, acknowledging healthcare heroes, and sending profits to boost scientific communication.

Old text on shop front page, before Halloween temp copy.
Art, science, and gratitude swirl together in these high-resolution, custom-printed “Vaccinated.US” designs. Each one features a high-precision 3D model of the actual SARS-CoV2 spike protein — the molecule of the year that saved millions of lives and allowed people of conscience to come out of isolation during the century’s most deadly global pandemic.

Pick one of these designs, and then the other options are simple.

Old text:
We hope this spike protein molecular art can raise the ambient, visible level of public health reason in neighborhoods where it might seem absent. Solidarity can be overdone, but perhaps there’s a place for it.

NOTE: You can access the legacy Appearance > Site Editor menu via https://vaccinated.us/wp-admin/customize.php

Link for VaccinatedUS shirts (just change color attribute)
<p><a href="https://vaccinated.us/product/vaccinated-us-mens-classic-tee/?attribute_pa_color=sport-grey&attribute_pa_size=l">
<img  data-media-content="wpdt-media-content"  src="https://vaccinated.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Vaccinated.US_.Heart2Frameless485X540.png" class=" alignnone size-medium" width="270" height="300" />
</a></p>

Link for Pure Spike shirts (just change color attribute)
<p><a href="https://vaccinated.us/product/mens-classic-tee/?attribute_pa_color=sport-grey&attribute_pa_size=l">
<img  data-media-content="wpdt-media-content"  src="https://vaccinated.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/VaxGratitude.HeartDotsShirtNoTitleFootnoted485X540.png" class=" alignnone size-medium" width="270" height="300" />
</a></p>

Link for VaxGratitude shirts (just change color attribute)
<p><a href="https://vaccinated.us/product/vaxgratitude-mens-classic-tee/?attribute_pa_color=sport-grey&attribute_pa_size=l">
<img  data-media-content="wpdt-media-content"  src="https://vaccinated.us/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/VaxGratitude.HeartDots485X540.png" class=" alignnone size-medium" width="270" height="300" />
</a></p>

The Vaccinated.US team is on a mission to disseminate a million pieces of spike protein art as subtle, poetic symbols of vaccine reason and gratitude — because we believe that can improve the spirit and power of public health cooperation during a global pandemic. The project grew out of a concern that vaccine disinformation and hostility are becoming so prevalent, loud, and evangelistic that their gravity threatens to pull (more) millions of reasonable people into a dysfunctional orbit. We worry that continuously more smart kids will fall into the anti-vaccine rabbit hole by virtue of its sheer size and presence.  That if some critical mass of humanity falls into the spin of scientific cynicism then our ability to navigate, govern and pull together erodes.  This seems particularly urgent as infodemic gravity grows stronger with well organized (and self-funding) disinformation machines like the “Died Suddenly” documentary, Epoch News, and the “disinformation dozen.” In a world of complex scientific arguments that go over too many heads, where psychology reminds us that facts alone will not convince all cynics (example 1, example 2), those forces of disinformation are hard to counterbalance entirely with scientific communication. We propose that a certain kind of art can play a critical role to establish an ambient sense of reason and solidarity that might open more ears to the science. To pursue some sort of equipoise with the vaccine disinformation machine.

In the spring of 2020 my team was whimsically making visual art based on 3D molecular structures (long story), and we started riffing on the structure of the SARS-CoV2 spike protein — before there were any commercial vaccines (because it’s just cool looking, see below).  Months later, when the vaccine conversation went vitriolic, we noticed that the art we had sitting around suddenly seemed to symbolize something important. We thought about Eric Topol’s tweet opining that CoViD vaccines might be one of the most impressive scientific achievements in history, we watched brave souls volunteering for vaccine clinical trials, noticed doctors and nurses coming out of retirement and working around the clock to help the sick, and we asked…  when do you ever hear anyone say “thank you” for the protection that these vaccines have given us? For these medical miracles that gave us a bit of safety to come out of pandemic isolation? To gather with families for the holidays?  How can we let that sentiment be drowned out by the cynicism? Worse still, what risks do we assume going forward if that cloud of antagonism comes to define and distort the broader climate of civic connection?  In the context of all that human generosity, the mostly forgotten molecular art we had tossed in the corner just seemed to say “thank you” in a way that was elegant, powerful, and cool to look at.  So we printed it up on t-shirts and invited the world to join us in a slow-moving global flashmob. To express those sentiments at scale.  To elevate the sheer presence of vaccine reason and gratitude wherever there might be doubt about its persistence. Or prevalence.

In the first couple months of the project we’ve gifted and/or sold and sent thousands of spike protein “pieces” to 24 countries and 48 US states (and counting!). Quixotic though it may be, people respond to the fusion of art and science. The message of reason and gratitude. The global flash of support in the first couple months.  All profits from the project are going directly toward distributing more spike protein art around the world, science education and R&D on a critical missing link informatics technology that has been constraining cancer research for decades.

Numerous studies (example 1, example 2) have found evidence that vaccine hostility results more from distrust of scientists/journalists than it does from any actual vaccine information — and that those institutional grievances drive contorted motivated reasoning. Distrust and division are the levers that move disinformation forward, and it is unfortunately easy to manufacture distrust. The result is that motivated angst peddlers fill our airwaves with vaccine bunk. In response our impulse is usually to re-re-represent the science (reasonably), but we propose that it is equally important to establish an ambient, visible presence of reason first. Trust. To put a visible flag in the ground to remind people that science supporters are everywhere. Nearby. Present. Where institutional distrust is in the air, we just want to disinfect with light. This molecular art is the best formula we’ve conjured to make that light portable. Shippable by post. To the spots where anyone is willing to give it a lightpost.

The Vaccinated.US art project is (accidentally) engineered to touch people at scale, drive its own virality, plant the flag of vaccine reason, and make that present in the streets. We’re working to accelerate the speed and scale of the art project to rebalance that ratio of vaccine reason/resistance.  Would you join us? All you have to do to join the vaccine gratitude anti-disinformation massacree is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar (with feeling). Or buy a bit of spike protein art and wear it around your neighborhood. Let there be light.

This year we have one thing to say to those superheroic vaccine scientists. | doctors. | nurses.| clinical trial volunteers. | 270 million Americans who vaxxed. | 5.6 BILLION planet-mates who vaxxed. | people who vaccinated to protect others. | people who vaxxed to protect themselves. | people who vaccinated in round 1. | people who vaxxed in round 501.

Thank you! Just thank you.
We stand together with you.

In a world where revisionist history twists public understanding, where vitriolic anti-vaxxers imagine they’re a majority, and where our ability to navigate the NEXT pandemic depends on basic public clarity, we’re flooding the zone with vaccine gratitude.

What will your Halloween costume express this year? How about gratitude and solidarity with the superheroic scientists, doctors, nurses, and 5.6 BILLION people of goodwill who represent the Vaccine Reason League? This 3D molecular model of the spike protein has become an international symbol of public health reason. Just add cape for Halloween costume of the year :^]

Help us raise the ambient level of reason. Join the spike fashionistas in 24 countries and 48 states who elevate the ambient presence of rationality.

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Join us in celebrating the 20+ million lives saved by CoViD vaccines, and honoring the superheroes who invented, tested, and deployed those protections around the world.

Join the Vaccine Reason League. Help us fill the streets with appreciation for public health accomplishments looking backwards, and commitment to empirical rationality going forward. Join the spike fashionistas in 24 countries and 48 states who wear this 3D model of the spike protein molecule as a fashion statement. A statement about making public health reason fashionable again.