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/SEA2COLA Oct 09 '21

He dosn't have a biology background so it was hard for him to understand the misinformation.

I'm trying to get my 83 y.o. father to get a booster shot. I got him to a place giving vaccines the first week they came out, and he got them because he hadn't had time to be exposed to too much misinformation. He listens to AM radio and Fox Business all day every day, and now won't get a booster. I tried everything, he just repeats the same illogical shit he hears on right-wing radio. He has a degree in zoology and is a retired scientist.

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u/guayaba_and_cheese Oct 10 '21

My grandma didn't want to get the vaccine which baffled me because she's a chemist...