Overheard in the hospital, a woman from kitchen staff speaking with a doctor, both Black. Somehow the topic of #CovidVaccine came up. The doctor asked the woman if she’d gotten the vaccine yet. She said no and that she wasn’t going to. 1/
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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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Taken as a class or group, these people who cite God's will: how many of them would, say, decline a life-saving organ transplant? Or accept a car ride with a driver notorious for reckless driving? Can, in some cases, the "God's will" claim be a cover for a different reason.
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A few months ago, I viewed many photos of people suffering from smallpox - a disease eliminated by vaccine. Some poor victims had lesions (is that the right word?) covering their entire bodies. If I were an anti-vaxxer, those pix might change my mind.
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Yup...like praying to win the lottery but never buying a ticket. How about you get the vaccine to protect others - particularly health care workers.
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I love how, when he wants sweet, innocent toddlers to come home, sometimes he gives them blood cancer. Such a nice, caring and above all, mysterious way to go about one's work.
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