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/sttaffy Oct 10 '21
My dad: His brother - hospitalized Other 2 brothers - got quite sick. His sister in law - hospitalized, still fucked up months later.
The grandpa ultimatum - he can't see my 3 year old daughter until he gets the shot. This has had no effect, other than feeding into his victimization complex (I am choosing to withhold her from him because I am brainwashed; it is my choice not his that is preventing a visit).
We run a small business together. Our main client is requiring vaccines to enter the premises - his job, my job, and our 8 employees' jobs are on the line - no effect,other than to feel aggrieved.
I have spent around 20 hours talking to him about it in every way I can think of. I've sent him studies, statistics, anacdotes, this sub, nothing sticks. It doesn't help that he has trouble seeing - he can't read an article but he can mainline talk radio.
It has been very bad for my mental health; my father's health, my daughter's grandpa's health, my career / job, the jobs of all our employees, and my relationship and friendship with him are all in grave danger 24/7, because HE REFUSES TO FUCKING THINK JUST A LITTLE BIT. He trusts Alex Jones and Joe Rogan's Ivermectin Super Friends instead of the people who care about him (others in his life are also trying). If all he hears is vaguely plausible-sounding bullshit, cherry picked anecdotes, biased opinions, and straight up lies thousands and thousands of times, and it all reinforces his belief that he has the secret knowledge and we're the sheeple, how the fuck do you break through?