At the height of Covid I saw an adult patient with special needs. She came in with her mid 70’s mother who was her caregiver and only living relative.
As a certain type of person was wont to do, she worked Covid into the conversation, basically saying it wasn’t that bad and the vaccine was more dangerous than the infection.
By this point each of my children had a friend who had lost at one grandparent to Covid, and I had lost one of my best friends from HS and one of my wife’s best friends had lost her husband, both late 40’s and otherwise healthy.
Knowing her age, I asked her if she remembered polio. Turns out she fucking had it as a toddler!! Luckily a mild case. Showed me her calf atrophy and mild leg length discrepancy. I said don’t you think your parents would have given you that vaccine had it been available? She said of course, but that was different (??!)
Finally I told her about the people I knew who had died and the healthy general surgeon I knew who spent a month on the vent as one of the first cases in DFW, looked at her daughter and said if you die what happens to her?
She wound up getting the vaccine, but Jesus people can be thick headed