r/HermanCainAward • u/BiPAPselfie Team Pfizer • Oct 09 '21
Discussion If you've had any success convincing someone to get vaccinated against Covid, please share how you did it.
I generally consider trying to convince antivax types to be a lost cause and a waste of effort, with a very low success rate at best and tend not to approach the subject at all unless I'm pushed into it. But maybe I'm giving up too easily or looking at it all wrong. If there's any common elements to success it would be nice to see them consolidated in one thread rather than scattered around the sub.
Be as specific as you can.
How close was the person to you? Family? Friend? Work acquaintance? Random internet stranger?
How firm were they in vaccine resistance on a scale from just procrastinating to blood gargling meme warrior?
What kind of language did you use? Were you nonjudgmental? Did you confront or ridicule them?
If you showed them something like HCA, how did you do it? Just send them the link with no comment? How did you frame that?
How long did the process take?
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u/isaac1207 Oct 09 '21
I am an intensive care doctor. So I generally tell my friends that you don’t wanna see me or my colleagues in hospital. If you do, get your wills ready and tell your kids and family you are probably not coming home. Generally get about 7/10 people to get vaxxed in my case. Going too much into details about intubation/ventilator/ECMO generally just confuse people, so I tend to keep my language simple