Editor,
We should avoid using provocative words when addressing friends, peers, family members, or anyone else who refuse the vaccine. Yes there will always be those who choose to be ignorant and cannot be convinced, but if our goal is to get more people vaccinated, the best way to approach this daunting task is through empathetic conversation.
One of the reasons some people declining the vaccine is the concerted (and undoubtedly skillful) use of propaganda by public figures to cast doubt over the vaccine. Rather, it is because well-manufactured propaganda carries a stronger dose than the vaccine. Politics, when manipulated, breeds fear and discord.
Stephen Xia
Saratoga
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Mr. Xia – you first plead to avoid using provocative words to folks who refuse the vaccine and in the next sentence you call these folks ignorant… Not much empathetic conversation there. Perhaps people are declining the “vaccine” because the jab is not a vaccine, just a jab, or two, or fifteen in the arm. There’s no need for public figures to use propaganda to cast doubt over the “vaccine” because the incidence of those still catching COVID after being “vaccinated” are well publicized, in addition to encountering various levels of side effects, including death. Sorry, Mr. Xia, it sounds like you’ve been manipulated by propaganda from public figures to take an experimental jab. Congrats on being a guinea pig.
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