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My partner is ex-Christian Scientist (a faith-healing cult that doesn't believe in disease or medicine.) Zir whole family finally relented and got vaccinated, but they all got J+J. I don't know why that vaccine in particular (maybe because it's single-shot, so they only have to deal with hypocrisy once?) but that vaccine is popular with that cohort.

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I wanted JJ because not mRNA and is accepted in several countries.

The JJ mechanism of action is better understood and less risky, in my view at least it is more acceptable for emergency approval.

Just out of curiosity- they used to be a christian scientist and now they’re not and go by xe/zir style pronouns? That’s quite a journey if so.

As for J&J, yes it’s generally the fact that it’s one and done so it feels less risky to people that didn’t want to get vaccinated. Then there’s the whole mRNA thing as well.

It could just be GP's preferred way of anonymizing their SO without having to resort to the dreaded singular specific "they". Call it light-weight anonymization to make it more difficult to be casually doxxed.

Zie grew up in CS, but was queer, and CS (at least back then) was very anti-LGBT. Principia, the CS university, would expel openly gay students and fire openly gay professors, and zir parents were homophobic too. The mom would listen to testimonials of people's "healings" of their same-sex attraction.

That made zir not fit in, and accelerated zir dropping out of CS and discovering the LGBT community, and non-binary identity.

Thanks for that context. I learned a bit about something new :)

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