Let’s Change The Divisiveness Surrounding Vaccination In America

Amber French
15 min readSep 16, 2021
Photo by Michael Aleo on Unsplash

It’s in your newsfeed on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, on the news media, on T.V., billboards, radio, flyers, in countless headlines daily, and on buses. Today it was even announced over a speaker at my grocery store. In 2021, in America, you cannot get through one 24 hour period without being inundated with vaccination messaging. What’s peculiar, and what’s given me frightened pause, is the messaging is overwhelmingly one-sided. I can’t recall another time in all my years where a message of persuasion had permeated so many forms of media.

When messaging is so overwhelmingly in your face, one would think many questions would arise from all who are taking it in. It is also logical to think that headlines would change and include updated information as evolving discoveries and new global studies become available. However, what’s strange, is that’s not what’s transpiring. That narrative is staying the same instead of updating itself with new insights. What’s more eye-opening is it has recently taken a darker and stunning turn given the sudden mandate for businesses from our President.

Perhaps people fundamentally want to believe and trust that this massive push from our government and news media is all for the greater good. In fact, many will and have gone forward with their decisions - putting precious…

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Amber French

Learning & unlearning on this parenthood journey. Mom, wifey, businesswoman, do-er, kitchen dancer. Lover of stories & people.