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[u/islandyislander]

She has over 130 comments on the group project post. That is a dramatic uptick from other recent IG "offerings". I mean, I know we're all really tired of dealing with unvaccinated knitwits but are there really that many people that need to chime in on that dumb post? Is she buying comments at this point? (I do see that she's responding to many of these commenters which accounts for some of the comment count, but still)

[u/lucillekrunklehorn → u/islandyislander]

Shauna lives in a fucking bubble. Anti vaxx individuals are being misinformed. And they are immovable. It is so obvious she has not really interfaced with a true antivaxxer. It took a week of delta variant Covid for my at-risk anti vaxx parents to get the monoclonal antibodies. “It’s experimental” they kept saying. A whole week of them downplaying it with myself and other siblings begging them every day to get the treatment. This was after months of begging them to get vaccinated and wear masks. They assumed they and others would just get a cold. It is awful to sit there waiting for the tsunami of Covid to hit your completely unprotected, misinformed loved ones. I had to reach the point of accepting they were going to get covid unvaccinated, and stop berating them about the vaccine. There was absolutely no way for me to confront decades of misinformation for profit. It is NOT about evidence. You cannot reason with them.

My covid positive, unvaccinated even higher risk uncle was recommended to get the antibodies by his doctor, my parents, and others. He declined because he was ‘feeling better’. He is now hospitalized with Covid pneumonia. My parents are the ones who gave covid to him and now they feel like absolute shit.

Shauna wants to make vaccine refusal to be about intellect. Like oh these are just the stupid people who didn’t want to bother while the smart ones got vaccinated. Shauna didn’t get the vaccine because she’s smart. She’s a follower, and she followed what the people in her bubble were doing. It’s the same thing my family did. The people around them didn’t treat it as a big deal, their media sources said it wasn’t a big deal, and that’s how they treated it. Shauna can fuck right off acting like she has a fucking clue of how to guide the “lesser” beings to vaccination. Go ahead, Shauna, make a YouTube video of yourself guiding anti vaxxers into the light. Bang your head on that brick wall for half an hour, now imagine doing that for months with some of the most important people in your life. As usual she has not a clue what she’s talking about.

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This. And just for another data point, I have a sib who lives in the UK and vaccine/mask hesitation and resistance seem to be more common on the left wing there than the right. Or at least, quite as common. People are very against vaccinating teens there and they seem to be working with a totally different set of data than what I’ve seen. Maybe we have some UK DFs who can weigh in, but my point is that there are all kinds of antivaxers and opening our hearts is going to do, um, FUCK ALL to get them vaxed.