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I have an uncle in a group home at the VA. He hasn’t been allowed to step in another building (family member’s home, Culver’s etc) since March 2020. About a month ago he got weekly visits up to an hour each. Now he’s at 4 hours a week. But he still can’t attend family baptisms, birthdays, First Communions etc. But staff of the house can come and go. It’s been extremely frustrating. I hope this is a step forward for him. He last saw most family in a group setting for Christmas 2019. His absence from his family is now longer than his tour in Vietnam. And he's been double vaxxed since January.
LensThis is awful.
Celebrities won’t do it. One of the active members of the Chicago vaccine hunters group is the guy spearheading the effort from Roseland Hospital on the far south side of Chicago. He has written more than once about how hard they are working to overcome the vaccine hesitancy in the community - I watched a video he posted of an outreach and honestly it was practically one-on-one in basically a town hall type community meeting. I know Chicago has put a ton of effort into outreach to the minority and disadvantaged communities, partnering with churches and other community groups.
What is so sad to me, and IMO is a huge failing of this admin is the lack of an organized campaign to reach out to people of color. Vaccine benefit awareness should be the biggest PSA in history. African Americans by and large drive cultural trends, why haven't we harnessed those voices from literature, the arts, entertainment and sports to hammer home how we all win with the vaccine. Such a missed opportunity.
This just isn't accurate. They have sponsored PSAs, they have developed messaging tool kits of various types, provided resources for community based orgs to get out and vaccinate people, etc.
I'll be in NYC in three weeks. Hope we can actually enjoy our time there.
So you believe that a few months of messaging is going to overcome generations of mistrust and hesitancy?
Pretty interesting to assume that the way the administration has handled outreach is okay despite the results.Did they bother asking POC how they get their information or why they're hesitant? There was an NPR feature the other week that said the majority of Latinos decide for themselves based on what their friends and family are doing. They're not influenced by celebrities or billboards.Food for thought.
I agree, Kay. And secondarily, I blame those who might be vaccinated but keep defending and/or enabling the selfish anti-vaxxers. "I'm vaccinated, and I think people should get vaccinated, but it's their choice and people should respect that." No, people who actually want a return to normalcy, as they claim, shouldn't respect that.
We should all be vocal about that disdain. As I said earlier, those are the people prolonging the epidemic and killing people. They should be publicly shamed and treated as such.
Just Republicans (as you claim) or are you going to throw Black folks in that hatred?
Now the CDC dropped this gem:"UPDATED testing guidance: If a fully vaccinated person has a known exposure to someone with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, @CDCgov recommends getting tested 3-5 days after exposure and wearing a mask in public indoor settings for 14 days or until they receive a negative result."Right back at square one, giving fuel to the vaccine skeptics. JTFC.
Is the position on that for Delta basically morphing to "we don't know so just wear a mask all the time" ?
Well, "black folks" that are untrusting are likely going to be made even moreso by conservative spread anti-vax propaganda.But yes, all unvaccinated are harmful. I would say there's nuance in people's reasoning for remaining unvaccinated though