Thread by @keikoinboston

I’m curious how many vaccinated people virtue signaling about the evils of the unvaccinated are volunteering to reach the unvaccinated but willing?

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1441806431821332480

2. I’m still unvaccinated months after I expected to be vaccinated. It’s been part medical issues part choice part vaccine hesitancy because of my various medical issues.

3. It’s been bizarre reading misinformation/disinformation about who the unvaccinated are and why we are unvaxxed.

4. People have caricatured the unvaxxed as a monolithic anti-vaxx bloc who aren’t vaccinated for political reasons or because they are stupid or selfish bastards when the pop. of unvaxxed people is much more diverse & our reasons much more complex than some want you to believe.

5. Most people are happy to give me a pass if they know about my medical issues but I’m not in the group of patients who have been advised by my doctors not to be vaccinated. All of my specialists who deal with the relevant medical issues want me to get vaccinated.

6. I was talking to a friend recently about how hard it was to find a vaccine site in a hospital because given my history of severe anaphylaxis due to a food allergy I don’t want to risk being somewhere where the staff may not know what to do with me should that happen.

7. They were trying to talk to me about alternatives and I said that I would rather overplan than underplan. I don’t want to be in a situation where I’d need to be transported to a hospital. I want to be IN a hospital to start with.

8. Because that’s what you have to do when you have multiple serious medical conditions and no one can tell you what will happen if they give you a drug that hasn’t been fully researched in people with your medical problems. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.

9. I have not been swayed by anyone I’ve seen ranting about the need for everyone to be vaccinated ASAP. Maybe it’s persuasive to someone but given that I’m on my own timetable, social media outrage means nothing to me. Tired of all the ignorance and performativity.