Thread by @BareReality

Or... don't. Because it's just not a normal friendship conversation.

telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

'More than nine in 10 UK adults say they are happy to receive a Covid vaccine.' This is '8 out 10 cats prefer Whiskas'. Social conformity & norms. It's 'safe' to make the same choice as everyone else.

The term ‘vaccine hesitancy’ is quite a new term. It implies a slight pathologisation. At the least, the vaccine sceptic looks a bit silly.

It also implies the ‘hesitation’ is just a step towards the inevitable – come on dear, we’ll get you over that hump and you’ll have your vaccination in the end. It's a very confident term, if you think about it.

The lamentation that emotional stories have more impact than facts could have been remembered much earlier in the epidemic. But anyway.

Asking friends to do this has a slight ring of the block policing that has been, and still is, widely used in Communist regimes, where individuals are asked to report anti-social behaviour and promote pro-social acts by their neighbours. So, perhaps don't do this to your friends.