How Do We Beat Vaccine Hesitancy When Everyone’s Shouting?
There’s got to be a better way. One man gives it a try.
A friend, more conservative than me and likely vaccinated, recently commented on how many are pushing the vaccine on others. She talked about the judgement and bullying of those that are making a choice for reasons you are not even trying to understand.
I have to admit, my first thought is what’s to understand? But the discussion had already started. She had many who agreed with her. And she got pushback, all right. One vented their frustration; I don’t see any type of valid reason from the anti-vac crowd.
This didn’t sit well with my friend. She challenged back, If your valid reason is different from another’s valid reason… they are the problem?! Also saying you have zero empathy to attempt to even understand why someone is choosing not to get vaccinated.
This thread seems so emblematic of where are in this nation, in terms of vaccine hesitancy and COVID. But there was one other thing I read in her posts. It was that she contended that the social pressure to vaccine continues to divide us.
Maybe the feeling, that pro-vaccine policy and advocacy are dividing us, was there all along. (I tend to think it’s Trump and Fox News that are dividing us.) But…
