The first tragedy discussed in this story is a good example of the kind of vaccine skepticism I was talking about earlier, the kind rooted in prior medical struggle and mystery and failure to find help from the system:
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07…
washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07…
In hindsight, Leanne Monzingo should have taken the vaccine. But was it irrational for her to be wary of it, given her experiences with chronic illness? 
How you answer that might depend on how you react - skeptically or sympethetically - to a phrase like "ailments her doctors couldn’t diagnose." My reaction before I had such an illness myself would have been different than the reaction I have today.
Of course then there are nested ironies here, given that Covid itself leaves some people with mysterious chronic illness, which certain Covid minimizers/anti-vaxxers (Alex Berenson, e.g.) tend to minimize or dismiss as hypochondria.
But the bottom line is that understanding the experience of chronic/undiagnosable illness helps you better understand some kinds of vaccine hesitancy. Not every kind, not necessarily the highly-politicized kind - but even they can intersect via a loss of faith in institutions.
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