People Are Reportedly Getting Vaccinated in Disguise to Avoid Judgment

WTF? This is a thing?

What a sad day in America it is, which once was viewed as a patriotic act ( and surely, the Covid vax cannot be anything other than a patriotic act ), that today many are wanting their medical providers not to reveal to anyone they got the vax, and some are going to get their vaccinations in disguise. (What are the disguises, I wonder?)

That being said, it's heartening to know that people, despite rhetoric to the contrary, are acting on the side of optimum survival in a world where possibility of death is real if one got the delta variant.

https://www.newsweek.com/people-are-reportedly-getting-vaccinated-disguise-avoid-judgment-1614057

For fear of social ostracism, some people in Missouri who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are showing up to doctor's appointments in disguise, internist Priscilla Frase, MD, the chief medical information officer for Ozarks Healthcare, said in a clip shared on the hospital's Facebook page on July 18. The clip has around 1,800 views.

As of this writing, Missouri has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the entire nation. Only 41 percent of the Midwestern state's population is fully vaccinated, according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services [MDHSS]. Of those 2,513,969 individuals, more are female than male, multiracial than monoracial, and older than younger, MDHSS data showed.

Based on Frase's statements, the driving force behind the reluctance may be concern for social standing. Patients aren't only changing their appearance; they're also begging their health care providers to be discreet.