Thread by @CandiceBenbow

Y’all. This delta variant is serious and it will impact Black and Brown communities in the same ways, and possibly much more aggressively, the first wave did at the beginning of the pandemic.

Please get vaccinated.

As with any vaccine, it is possible to still contract COVID. However, the vaccines ensure that *if* you contract it, you are less likely to suffer the most dire symptoms, be hospitalized or die.

Also, please understand that while the vaccination rollout was dubbed “Operation Warp Speed”, that had nothing to do with the vaccines themselves. The science had been in development for decades and continued to be developed as we experienced other pandemics in recent years.

The “warp speed” was the time in which it got to us, not the time it took to make it.

Please get vaccinated.

President Biden has said we will lose more people to COVID in the coming months, especially as this new variant settles in here. And it will be especially impact vulnerable, unvaccinated populations—our communities.

We’ve made great strides to get vaccines into our communities and folks are getting their shots. Still, we need to do more.

Please get vaccinated.

Talk to your people. Go to getvaccineanswers.org to get the facts about the vaccines and find a vaccination location near you.

I have been fully vaccinated since April. I believe in God and I believe in science. I know that the vaccines are my best chance to keep myself and those I love safe.

Jesus came that I might have abundant life and I’ve been called to love my neighbor. Vaccination was the way I could honor Jesus’ commitment to me and my commitment to those around me.

Again, this variant shouldn’t be taken lightly. Neither should the fact that we’re extremely vulnerable to it.

Please get vaccinated.