rephrasing, less acidic: if we're mutuals & you're going to post about how you got vaccinated, please call the vaccine a vaccine, not a super-soldier serum or juice or anything cute, because i would like to not be reminded that i won't be vaccinated for *at least* another year 1/
i have word filters for: "vaccine" "vaccinated" "pfizer" "astrazeneca" so feel free to use those words in all your covid vaccine posts so that i don't see them anymore. i can't mute "moderna" because that just means modern in portuguese and i'd rather not flag false positives 2/
the covid situation in brasil is extremely dire. my parents have several comorbidities & not even them are in the age group ostensibly being vaccinated by the local (not federal) government. the federal government is literally anti-vax. we've peaked almost 4k deaths a day. 3/
some real quick google-furnished stats just in case there's still people following me who are unaware of the situation here
you might say, ah, that's not a lot of cases. but of course, you can't have cases if you're not testing. that's the govt loophole. then look at the deaths
i only left the tests conducted graph in "actual" rather than "per 1M people" to make the short line easier to see. this is what it looks like in relative scale
i am SUPER on edge about this stuff, so i am understandably less than kind to people in the first-world i see happily boasting their vaccination cards. i'm sorry for those whose feelings i've hurt with my lashing out, but that's what colonization does to a person.
i'd love to enjoy that my twitter mutuals i'll likely never see in person are all getting vaccinated and taking selfies getting a frappuccino on the way home. but right now i'm too angry to be that friendly with the first world. i'm sorry. please accommodate me. 4/4