I received the vaccine on Friday, just a week after I made my appointment, and if I hadn’t written about the experience at length, I’m not sure I would have told anyone except my immediate family and closest friends. Some of that trepidation comes from my own anxiety around having a BMI high enough to qualify me for the vaccine, but it also comes from the small, seemingly offhanded comments I’ve heard and seen on social media about who “deserves” the vaccine and who does not. (While we’re on the topic, let’s say it for good measure: Not all underlying health conditions are immediately visible or legible in the way we’ve been socialized to recognize them, so trying to determine how someone you vaguely know qualified for the vaccine is not only rude and invasive, it’s also pretty futile.)
Judgment has been a constant throughout this pandemic, but it’s rarely productive, and can have the opposite of its intended effect. “Shaming is often an ineffective way of getting people to change their behavior, and it entrenches polarization and discourages disclosure, making it harder to fight the virus,” noted Zeynep Tufekci in a recent Atlantic article about the biggest mistakes we’ve made in response to the pandemic. We gripe about people who post pictures of themselves hanging out with friends on social media in part because it’s easier than figuring out how to fix a system that let nearly 500,000 people die in a year. It’s our way of telling ourselves that we’re on the right side of things, but it’s also a way of separating ourselves from the people around us at a time when we desperately need to band together to defeat this disease.
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