Re: Messengers
Napoleon Hauck
A. Each person elected by a church cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention as a messenger to the Southern Baptist Convention shall be registered as a messenger to the Convention upon presentation of proper credentials. Credentials shall be presented by each messenger, in person, at the Convention registration desk and shall be in the following form:
B. The president of the Convention, in consultation with the vice presidents, shall appoint, at least thirty (30) days before the annual session, a Credentials Committee to serve at the forthcoming sessions of the Convention. This committee shall review and rule upon any questions which may arise in registration concerning the credentials of messengers. Any such ruling may be appealed to the Convention during business session. Any contention arising on the floor concerning seating of messengers shall be referred to the committee for consideration and the committee shall report back to the Convention.
C. The registration secretary shall be at the place of the annual meeting at least one (1) day prior to the convening of the first session of the Southern Baptist Convention for the purpose of opening the registration desk and registering messengers. The registration secretary also shall convene the Credentials Committee at least one day prior to the annual meeting and shall assist the committee in reviewing questions concerning messenger credentials. The registration secretary shall report to the Convention the number of registered messengers.
Spot on. Old enough to remember when we had a real public health system with public health depts that did more than collect stats. We had public health nurses that visited with people, tracked contacts and were an integral part of the community. Horrifying to see public health become politicized. The CDC publicly stating they were changing guidelines to consider the economic impact was mind blowing and showed they have lost all claims to legitimacy. I'm a retired FNP. The CDC used to be my go to. I now use you as a resource first followed by some other international sites. It is extremely hard to find a reliable source that has scientific basis without political penetration shaping it's narrative
Agreed. I (pediatrician here) posted a reel on my instagram about this very topic of drinking infected milk and asked on stories how many of my audience drink raw milk. Staggeringly few drink raw milk despite the way that many perceive EVERYONE ELSE as drinking raw milk based on tiktoks and instagrams.
If we as the trusted messengers turn everything into a catastrophe it's really hard to keep our audience engaged but when we instead focus on how we arrive at our recommendations, the limits of our knowledge, and how much weight we give to our reccomendations.
There is no question that the information landscape has dramatically changed in the 21st century. Information is no longer dictated by authorities but networked by peers. This means the old-school approach to information diffusion\u2014a top-down trickle from ivory towers\u2014does not work with many groups. In fact, it sometimes backfires.
This cannot be more apparent than with bird flu (H5N1). Higher-risk people who need the information don\u2019t trust the messenger (i.e., the government), and worse, the information is unresponsive to their needs on the ground.
When I started this newsletter a few years ago, I naively thought I was talking to \u201CJoe on the corner\u201D\u2014 reaching directly into households. That was until I surveyed YLE readers and saw the audience was \u201Ctrusted messengers.\u201D These are readers directly involved with their communities\u2014education boards, non-profits, teachers, physicians, businesses, hospitals, scientists, media, and religious leaders\u2014craving actionable, understandable, and useful information quickly to curate further for their networks. Eventually, YLE information would reach \u201CJoe on the corner\u201D through key mediators.
While this network is largely invisible, it\u2019s incredibly powerful. Trusted messengers are trusted precisely because they are in the community. They understand pain points, reality, and tradeoffs people must make daily. They refuse to be helicopters\u2014swooping in when they need something and retreating quickly. Rather they are:
This is important to understand not only in relation to COVID-19 but also to literally all other public health topics today\u2014whether it\u2019s emergency response or \u201Cpeacetime\u201D public health challenges.
I don\u2019t consider H5N1 (bird flu) to be under control. We are flying blind: We don\u2019t know how this virus is spreading, where it is spreading, and if it\u2019s becoming better at infecting humans.
There are many reasons for lack of trust: Their values don\u2019t align, there are language barriers, some have been burned before, public health leaders have vilified them, and some have legitimate concerns about their livelihood being impacted. It shouldn\u2019t be shocking that few are volunteering to test for H5N1. Others are even actively going against advice, like buying more raw milk.
A core of the response should be finding, equipping, partnering with, and supporting the people they trust the most. This could be their physicians, places of worship, EMTs, unions, or migration centers. Unfortunately, this idea is largely put by the wayside in many conversations I\u2019m a part of. Everyone\u2019s focused on the science, which is important, but equally important is the behavioral aspect of information diffusion for effective public health implementation.
But the solutions being proposed are underwhelming. For example, some suggest that all we need to do is find the magic wand\u2014the perfect word or phrase for an awareness campaign\u2014and everyone will suddenly trust the information and get their routine vaccinations.
This line of thinking is a fantasy. We live in a new world where the information landscape has dramatically changed. The problem isn\u2019t the information supply\u2014there is way too much. We must work on the demand side\u2014actively finding trusted nodes in communities, understanding how they get their health information, hearing their concerns from a place of empathy, communicating nuance, and 100% leaning into it.
This is hard, messy, complex work\u2014and it\u2019s not sexy to fund. But we will continue to spin our wheels until we find and support sustainable models for trusted messengers to translate and disseminate public health information.
It\u2019s beyond time that we change our approach to public health information diffusion: Find, equip, partner with, and support trusted messengers. Not just as H5N1 may become an emergency and not just as an afterthought. But rather as a core part of our work every day. This is where and how public health will make an impact.
\u201CYour Local Epidemiologist (YLE)\u201D is written by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD\u2014an epidemiologist, data scientist, wife, and mom of two little girls. During the day, she is a senior scientific consultant to a number of organizations, including the CDC. At night, she writes this newsletter. Her main goal is to \u201Ctranslate\u201D the ever-evolving public health science so that people will be well-equipped to make evidence-based decisions. This newsletter is free, thanks to the generous support of fellow YLE community members. To support this effort, subscribe below:
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Industries in the Couriers and Messengers subsector provide intercity and/or local delivery of parcels and documents (including express delivery services) without operating under a universal service obligation. These articles can be described as those that may be handled by one person without using special equipment. This allows the collection, pick-up, and delivery operations to be done with limited labor costs and minimal equipment. Sorting and transportation activities, where necessary, are generally mechanized. The restriction to small parcels partly distinguishes these establishments from those in the transportation industries. The complete network of courier services establishments also distinguishes these transportation services from local messenger and delivery establishments in this subsector. This includes the establishments that perform intercity transportation as well as establishments that, under contract to them, perform local pick-up and delivery. Messengers, which usually deliver within a metropolitan or single urban area, may use bicycle, foot, small truck, or van.
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