The doc asked why. She said she was healed by His blood. The doc politely but urgently suggested that she “really should get the vaccine” because #COVID19 is “killing people out there.” 2/
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Her response was that when He wants you to come home, there’s nothing you can do about it. I suppose, from a Christian point of view, that’s true, but I also learned years ago, when I was still a devoted Catholic, that God helps those who help themselves. 3/
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Leaving our seemingly deformed theologies aside, this little overheard snippet of conversation as I was passing through reminded me that vaccine hesitancy is not just a problem among white, Trump-living evangelicals. It’s a huge problem among people of color as well. 4/
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I was further reminded that Blacks are much more severely affected by
#COVID19 when a patient’s relative told me she know several people who had died of COVID, including a healthy man in his 50s. I know a fair number of people who got symptomatic COVID, but no one who died. 5/Show this thread -
I know, I know, this is anecdotal personal experience and thus unreliable and potentially unrepresentative, but it’s in line with what the data show. The bottom line is that we have a lot of work to do to win the trust of people like this woman. We need to do better. 6/6
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Still just code for vaccine denial. In my experience, most people who say things like this still wear seatbelts, pour out expired milk, keep their children on the outside of the enclosures at the bear exhibit, etc.
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Couching vaccine denialism in religion is still vaccine denialism. It’s just got a fancy bow wrapped around it.
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POC have good historical reasons not to trust medicine. It’s hard to argue with fear, even if they say it’s because of religion.
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