I really wish more were being done to openly address the more extreme cases of side effects, so we could try to find other contributing factors and perhaps mitigation strategies.

The number of poor reactions is very small, but pretending like they don’t exist or failing to address ways to overcome them only further fuels the fear in those hesitant to get vaccinated, and furthers the divisiveness in an issue we should all be working together on.

Which makes sense if you’re a politician or Dr. Fauci, but doesn’t make sense if you just care about the health and safety of everyone and want to get this damn pandemic over with already.

Forcing or shaming the hold outs to get vaccinated won’t do this, but giving honest confidence in the vaccine to people will.