Opinion: The pedestrian nature of getting a shot that’s overwhelmingly been proven safe and efficacious, not to mention free, is what makes refusing to do it so petty and so insidious. So un-American.
A droplet falls from a syringe after a Covid-19 vaccination in December 2020. | David Goldman/AP PhotoErin Aubry Kaplan is a journalist in Los Angeles and a contributing opinion writer for theI have always seen Thanksgiving not so much as a holiday about the past , but as a time to take stock of the national community in the present, to remind ourselves of the ways Americans truly do still depend on each other and to think about how we can build on that solidarity in the future.
I do not use that word lightly. For my whole life, I’ve maintained a stubborn willingness to believe in an America, even a small one, that sees itself as working toward becoming a single people. As an African American, I’ve always felt outside the possessive pronouns of “we” and “our” and “us,” yet that didn’t make me indifferent — to the contrary, it made me more passionate about claiming my rightful place in it all, about fighting to become an equally considered part of the American “we.
The most disorienting thing about the new vaccination binary is how it’s nearly superseding the racial binary of Black and white that’s framed my view of America, and my view of its moral sense, my whole life. There’s no question that race and racism deeply divide and threaten the coherence of our society. But to not draw the lines of vaccinated and non, to simply agree to disagree with the vaccine-resistant, is life-threatening in an even more immediate way than racism is.
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