Coronavirus: Family arguments
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Health professionals will tell you that Covid-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives across the globe yet some people continue to doubt their safety and refuse to get a jab. These differences of opinion are being played out within families: some refuse to get a jab, while others are vaccinated.
An American in Florida and a French citizen in Ireland share the difficulties they have encountered at home with host James Reynolds.
We bring them together to hear how family gatherings can become fraught.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service. This is BBC OS Conversations on Coronavirus |
| 0:05.8 | Family Arguments. In this week's program, we discuss the effect of the pandemic on relationships |
| 0:14.2 | when family members differ about getting vaccinated. We also hear from three international students |
| 0:20.1 | who've been unable to return to China for two years because of the country's strict |
| 0:24.8 | zero-covid policy. It has affected me severely. Once the thought gets in your mind, it's very |
| 0:30.4 | difficult to get rid of it because you then start thinking about that. You have wasted the golden |
| 0:36.0 | time of your life just to wait, wait, wait and wait. The pandemic has brought differences of opinion |
| 0:45.6 | about vaccination. You may have read the other day about the focusing on Hanahorca from the |
| 0:49.9 | Czech Republic. Unlike other members of her family, she opted to remain unvaccinated. Her son told |
| 0:56.8 | the BBC that when he and his father caught COVID themselves, she then deliberately exposed herself |
| 1:02.6 | to the disease. Her intention was to obtain a COVID recovery pass in order to get into certain |
| 1:08.4 | music venues. Sadly, though, within days of posting on social media that she tested positive and |
| 1:14.1 | was recovering, Hanah died. Her case might be extreme, and that's partly, of course, why it got |
| 1:20.7 | coverage around the world. But we wanted to hear about the difficulties that opinions about COVID |
| 1:25.6 | vaccines are causing for some families. We brought together Emmanuel Sean Quilivan in Ireland |
| 1:32.1 | and Brian Renaldi in Florida and the United States to share their stories. |
| 1:36.4 | There's four of us. Three of us are vaccinated. My wife, myself, and my youngest son, who's 15, |
| 1:42.9 | my older son, who's 19 has chosen not to be vaccinated, and he's decided that he doesn't feel |
| 1:49.2 | the vaccine is worthwhile. His determination is like in this case comes off his stubbornness, |
| 1:55.9 | but also in other cases when he's really wants to get something done. He is very determined kid, |
| 2:02.1 | very athletic, it's good at pretty much any sport. He tries, he suddenly excels at it, extremely |
| 2:08.5 | smart. So I think some of those things kind of contributed to this. He was doing all kinds of |
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