So you want to start a campaign of persuading people, one human at a time, to get vaccinated.
Here are some tips.
First, see yourself as a missionary — but for something you firmly and whole-heartedly believe has improved your life and the lives of others, so not religion.
Second, the mindset is NOT “I am good and you are bad” or “I am right and you are wrong.”
That is not sales. THIS is sales.
The attitude is “I did this easy weirdly fun thing that made me happy, healthy, beautiful and free, and I would love for you to join me!! 🌈 “
That doesn’t mean there is no pressure. Remember you’re a missionary for the vax.
Somewhere around one hundred percent of the people you confront will hold superstitious beliefs you will have to crush to dust, without them feeling a thing.
“Hi! It’s so good to be out & about, right? So which vax did you get? I got Moderna. Oh—you didn’t get it? You’re in such a small group! Wow. But I get it. For me, I don’t really watch YouTube like that angry crowd. And my freedom and health are just really important to me?”
“I’m totally fine with people who don’t get the vaccine. I’m just a hygiene freak — I hate germy infectious snot. & those videos of how covid makes your drown in your lungs? Oh my god I hate ventilators too. That could be just my obsession. I know it’s so personal.”
“Oh shoot you didn’t get it? I was hoping to have you to dinner with some other friends but if you’re unvaccinated that doesn’t work. Next time, right? Definitely text me when you get it!”
“Oh I’m SO sorry. I have friends who are Methodists & can’t dance at all so I totally get it. Some beliefs just take hold of us, even when they wreck our lives lol. I was like that when I was on a really strict diet. It almost killed me! We go through what we go through, right?”
They say 5G/Fauci/ivermectin:
“So much homework! Is that all from YouTube? Impressive! I just don’t obsess. I want to see people, be outdoors, get invited to stuff. Especially after eons inside! But you seem so interested in your YouTube & that’s fun to have such a passion!”
In sum, refer to all anti-vax gibberish as “YouTube” & otherwise never disparage it.
Hold out hope they just don’t know it’s free, are scared of needles, etc. I’ve had people need only facts, reassurance & help getting an appt.
Emphasize how free you are. Use the word a LOT
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Reading Woodward what comes through now is how singularly uneventful, fair, and by-the-book democratic the 2020 presidential election was. if one candidate hadn’t been bleating about his delusions & riling up Nazi militias it would have almost forgettable.
Biden takes his time announcing and makes mistakes. Sanders can’t draw Black voters. Harris, Warren, Klobuchar and Buttigieg bring good ideas. Clyburn goes Biden. Biden beats a loathed impeached incumbent.
There’s a quadrennial plodding American set piece going on on the main stage and then over there is a psychopath screaming about bugs on his arm to an adoring but small bog.
So many hot tossing 4ams I told myself that if we ever got Trump out and ever had a vaccine I would not be like one of those gloomy lottery winners and NOT be happy. I have more or less stuck to that.
77% of adults have now had at least one shot.
Please today tell the terrified you of last September that it—some of it—is really, really gonna be OK.
When you're hating the anti-vaxers and Joe Manchin really remember how much worse it could have been.
I have 8s in my handle and have always liked 8 because it’s a hail-fellow merry Falstaff kind of letter. Welcomes everyone. Where the 7s stand back and are captivating but I don’t have a chance of being friends with them — like mathematicians?
Maybe the US needs 53 states to make a real go of it.
Seems at least possible that the opinion page as a conceit has exposed itself as a finite game with only two strikeable positions, currently known as “woke” and “anti-woke.”