Quote Originally Posted by Aimless View Post
You've identified one reason for why persuading a person who is hesitant to get vaccinated can be difficult: being rational and "unemotional" often does not help; it's difficult to allay their concerns with arguments. Purely anecdotally, my experience has been that most of the work of persuasion is social, personal, and emotional. One thing we can always do—quite easily—is to gently convey our own positive feelings of anticipation, trust, and relief, implicitly inviting them to share in it. Model positive vaccine feelings; anyone can do it and it takes no effort at all.
The maddening thing is that she is aware of the fact that dying of covid-19 is the bigger risk. She read an article about a couple refusing to get vaccinated who then both died from covid-19. And she admits her fear of the vaccination isn't rational. But the conclusion still is that she doesn't get vaccinated. I mean, her own thought process logically should lead to vaccination. But it somehow ends in vaccination being framed as the bigger risk.