How to be inclusive when discriminating against the unvaccinated

When denying entry to unvaccinated idiots, or when wishing an agonizing death upon them, try your best to use inoffensive, non-stigmatizing language.

Nothing matters more than words and how they make people feel. That’s why the CDC is appropriately going beyond public health guidelines to make sure language is safe for everyone, too.

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Are you using #inclusive language? CDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication shares preferred terms and language. bit.ly/3BcLDhG.

bit.lyCDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive CommunicationCDC’s Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication emphasize the importance of addressing all people inclusively and respectfully.

When you’re telling an unvaccinated person they aren’t welcome to enter your home, business, or hospital, be sure to choose your words carefully to avoid making them feel excluded.

For example, instead of saying, "Men like you are the reason this pandemic will never end. Die slow and burn in hell," try saying, "Persons like you are the reason this pandemic will never end. Die slow and burn in hell."

If you’re doing the right thing by reporting a menstruating birthing person with a uterus to the police for violating a science-based outdoor mask mandate, don’t say to the cops, “That woman was trying to kill us all! Arrest her!” Murder is never as bad as potentially misgendering someone. Try to use non-binary language to describe the maskless monster, and certainly don’t refer to them as a criminal. Instead, use the less stigmatizing “soon-to-be incarcerated mask mandate violator.”

At the end of the day, gendered or stigmatizing language is presumptive and offensive, even when applied to the unvaccinated and the maskless (all of whom should die slow and burn in hell).