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into the soft arts of communication, emotional intelligence, trust, and love. These tools take more time, more skill, and immense amounts of dedication to understanding each other.
As the urgency for public safety and the declared win of science adds to the mountain of facts on our media sources and government outlets, public figures and family leaders continue to fan the hesitancy flame, driving a deeper and deeper social divide.
As someone who believes deeply in science and is committed to vaccination as the statistically backed path to safe passage for our species and way of life, I feel enormous urgency in the call for vaccination. I am proud of the organizations that have said, we will move in the direction of science and ask our employees to come with us. I have spent hours, with an open heart, listening to concerned people, fearful and full
of research to ‘defend’ their position. In these hours, it has become evident to me, that this ask...the Covid vaccine ask... is so much less about so-called hesitancy, and so much more about confidence. Confidence in science, in government, in collaboration, in people.
No matter what side of this debate you are on, I wonder if we can find a middle ground. If we explore the importance of our own agency, and how we honor agency in others, can we find common ground?
It might be that if we can show up differently for each other, we can find our connection to build confidence in a shared solution to pandemic. If we can discuss our dreams for a shared future where we are safe, can congregate, can travel to loved ones and far away places, where we can hug together and grieve together, we might be able to agree on the ‘how’. We can design a place where we can all be ‘seen’ and valued. I hope that is a place where we move with science and use our collective genius to accept the vaccine... the vaccine
that teaches our body how to fight Covid without having
to be ravished by the virus. I hope it is a world where the numbers of Covid infection go down so health care workers can get relief from the massive dying that has become their daily work. I hope it is a world where we can heal our brains from the traumatic events pandemic has exposed. I hope it
is a world where children can go to school; to learn and see and be near each other and their teachers. I hope it is a world where we heal from grief. I hope it is a world where we have learned so much more about love that we can bring a new normal. A fresh start that is so much more loving and wiser than where we were before we knew what we know now.
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Works Cited
Gallager, S. (2019, April 21). The Many Faces of Vaccine Hesitancy. Retrieved from Duke Global Health Institute: https://globalhealth.duke.edu/ news/many-faces-vaccine-hesitancy
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