Sheletta Brundidge was skeptical about the vaccination, but now she has dared. The reason: Your son had requested the vaccination for his birthday.
Most Americans who want to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have already received their vaccination. But there is also a group that should not be neglected that has been hesitant or even completely refused to be vaccinated. Some consider vaccinations per se dangerous, others want to wait until the vaccines and their consequences have been better researched.
Sheletta Brundidge from Minnesota was in the second group, the vaccine skeptics faction. The 49-year-old was generally rather suspicious of the health system in the USA. She has had bad experiences with doctors, including the birth of her four children, she told US media. Therefore, despite all the recommendations of experts and politicians, she initially did not intend to get vaccinated. But her eldest son Andrew finally managed to change her mind.
15-year-old convinces his mother about the vaccination
The boy turned 15 on July 31 – and he only had one birthday wish: his mother should get vaccinated against Covid-19. “What should I and my siblings do if you get sick?” He asked her. “Who will take care of us?” At this point, Sheletta Brundidge couldn’t help but give up her disapproving stance. All attempts to persuade her husband and friends had failed with Brundidge.
Her son, who had already been vaccinated, had therefore prepared very well. “I knew it wasn’t going to be easy,” he told Good Morning America. “So I found out the facts about the Covid vaccination online.” With that he finally managed to convince his mother. She “moved to tears,” said Brundidge, that Andrew had no other wish than that she should be vaccinated.
“I understand that this decision affects not only me, but also my family,” said the mother of four, the television channel CBS. “We must all do our part to get the virus under control.” Two weeks after her son’s birthday, Brundidge got her first dose of the vaccine. Now she is trying to convince others of the vaccination: “I hesitated too, but I can’t play Russian roulette with the virus. Then you lose.”
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