As COVID-19 cases increase and ICUs fill up, officials have adopted a "just say no" approach to curbing the pandemic.

But some say, as with sex education, "absitence only" isn’t effective. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Many aren’t buying public officials' 'stay-at-home' message. Experts say there's a better way

Some experts say a harm-reduction approach to public health — educating people how to mitigate risk in their activities — would be more effective than all-or-nothing pleas to abstain from contact...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
The blunt “stay-at-home” messaging worked to bend the curve in the spring, when fear of the novel coronavirus and the insidious ways it might spread kept many indoors.

But nine months later, the words seem to have lost their meaning. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Many aren’t buying public officials' 'stay-at-home' message. Experts say there's a better way

Some experts say a harm-reduction approach to public health — educating people how to mitigate risk in their activities — would be more effective than all-or-nothing pleas to abstain from contact...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Just in L.A. the number of people staying home has remained the same (55%) since June.
Nationally, millions zigzagged across the country to visit family for Thanksgiving, flouting the advice of health officials.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
A growing number of experts say there’s a better way to advise people— harm reduction.

Usually used to describe sex-education programs, harm reduction aims to lessen the risks of dangerous behaviors instead of trying to get people to stop altogether. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Many aren’t buying public officials' 'stay-at-home' message. Experts say there's a better way

Some experts say a harm-reduction approach to public health — educating people how to mitigate risk in their activities — would be more effective than all-or-nothing pleas to abstain from contact...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, a harm-reduction approach would encourage masking and social distancing instead of demanding that people have no contact at all with people they don’t live with. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Many aren’t buying public officials' 'stay-at-home' message. Experts say there's a better way

Some experts say a harm-reduction approach to public health — educating people how to mitigate risk in their activities — would be more effective than all-or-nothing pleas to abstain from contact...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Public health research has found that a harm reduction strategy makes people feel empowered to make their own choices and that, ultimately, they don’t take more risks than they would have otherwise. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
Many aren’t buying public officials' 'stay-at-home' message. Experts say there's a better way

Some experts say a harm-reduction approach to public health — educating people how to mitigate risk in their activities — would be more effective than all-or-nothing pleas to abstain from contact...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/coronavirus-stay-home-messaging-la-harm-reduction
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