I assume everyone who follows me on this bird app knows how important I think vaccination is, but maybe you don’t. I work with the sickest, most vulnerable children.
If you’ve ever laid it all out as a health professional to wrestle a patient from the jaws of death, you know how hard it is to think about someone not doing everything they can to keep their neighbour safe.
If you’ve cared for someone gasping for breath, seen the terror in their eyes, knowing you’d do anything to help, then it drives you mad to think that there are those who won’t do One Simple Thing to save a life.
Like washing your hands and wearing a mask, getting vaccinated against #COVID19 is an act of love for your neighbours, your community, your family, your children, and your elders.
Getting vaccinated is an act of justice. It says ‘I affirm that your life matters’. It proclaims ‘your suffering is important to me’.
I beg you. I beseech you. Get vaccinated if you are able to. The first vaccine you are offered, get it in your arm. In this global chain of love for our neighbour and justice for each other, do not be the weakest link.
When you consider the disproportionate impact of this pandemic, (and every historical pandemic or epidemic) on Indigenous and racialised people and communities, it becomes clear that getting immunised is one of the most decolonising, anti-racist things you can do.
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