# Convincing acquaintances, friends, and family to get vaccinated **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [August 7, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172 "2021-08-07T00:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172/291 "2021-10-21T13:13:55Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > That’s weird. She does have a problem bridging her general beliefs to the reality of her children. For example she’s opposed to parental notification laws for abortion. But she’s have kittens if her teenage daughter was provided birth control without her permission. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172/293 "2021-10-21T18:48:47Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > I once watched someone suffering through shingles and it looked like something I never wanted to try out for myself. It’s truly hideous and not very amenable to pharmaceutical pain relief. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172/296 "2021-10-23T16:09:15Z")
Here’s an interesting news story about how a lengthy conversation with family members changed one anti-vaxxer’s mind. > **[How one sincere conversation changed the mind of this self-proclaimed...](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-covid-19-anti-vaccine-man-changes-mind-1.6201220)** > > It took some time and convincing, but Jason Lerato is now vaccinated, a testament to the patience and persuasive efforts by two of his family members who work in health care. > [@](#): > > “I, for three hours, just expressed my concerns, my fears, my thoughts and instead of a coercive conversation it was very much sincere from the heart, ‘Jason here’s the facts.’” > > Those facts surrounded three primary questions from Lerato. > > He asked them about the odds of him contracting COVID-19, or the delta variant in particular, were he not to get vaccinated. They explained his chances were very high; it was more a question of when, and they said he was likely to end up in hospital or worse if infected. > > That prompted another question: if he were to get the shot, what were the chances of still getting COVID-19? At the time Lerato believed getting the shot would be worse for him than not having it. > > “They said, ‘Well, you might still carry COVID or delta, but it’s not going to affect you the same way, and chances of you going to the hospital or death is extremely low,’” he said. > > The brother-in-law then said he, being double-vaccinated, was more of a danger to Lerato than Lerato was to him. > > “I said how? He said, ‘Because I could be carrying delta or COVID but it won’t affect me really because I’m vaccinated. So, if I give you a handshake or give you a hug and you’re not vaccinated, you’re going to get it.’ It kind of woke me up.” > > ## Long, slow conversation > > The conversation was long and slow. What was once a firm conviction of 20 years gradually fell away. It was a combination of what they said and how they said it, according to Lerato. > > “They were very sincere, instead of being pushy or making my thoughts seem ridiculous,” he said. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172/297 "2021-10-23T16:28:44Z")
So did his daughters ever get the HPV vaccine?! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172/298 "2021-10-23T16:32:28Z")
My sister is one of the toughest people I know and shingles made her cry. It was awful watching her suffer for weeks with that terrible disease. Do not want. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/convincing-acquaintances-friends-and-family-to-get-vaccinated/948172.md?page=14)