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9th Sep 2021:

Elders and teens from Queensland's Indigenous communities push back against vaccine hesitancy to boost immunisation rates

Cherbourg elder Uncle Bevan Costello this week received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

16th Sep 2021:

Shockwaves felt through South Burnett following sudden death of 'much loved' Cherbourg elder Uncle Bevan Costello

Uncle Bevan is believed to have suffered a heart attack on Wednesday morning, sending shockwaves through the community and beyond.

9th Sep 2021: [Elders and teens from Queensland's Indigenous communities push back against vaccine hesitancy to boost immunisation rates](https://archive.md/nSxn7) > Cherbourg elder Uncle Bevan Costello this week received his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. 16th Sep 2021: [Shockwaves felt through South Burnett following sudden death of 'much loved' Cherbourg elder Uncle Bevan Costello](https://archive.md/u3dj7) > Uncle Bevan is believed to have suffered a heart attack on Wednesday morning, sending shockwaves through the community and beyond.

2 comments

[–] CDanger 1 points (+1|-0)

yikes, I'm surprised they wrote an article at all covering his death. I guess we don't 100% know that these are related, but we do know they certainly wouldn't describe any connection between these two events if they knew. That's not reassuring at all for people looking to these authoritative sources for truth. Do they think people won't notice their lies of omission? Do they think we're stupid?

biggest challenge is dispelling myths and misinformation about the vaccine...vaccine hesitancy

How about leaving people alone and respecting their beliefs? Many of these are not "hesitant" and they're not suffering from "misinformation and myths". There are tons of people with very good reasons for not wanting it and a bunch of people with weird bogus reasons. That's how this works in a free society where people have autonomy and control over their own lives. Their reasons don't matter and are irrelevant red herring because they as a human must be respected regardless. Enough with this dystopian "of course nobody is forcing you, but if you don't... " or "you just need to be reeducated".

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that the following content contains images of people who have died.

real-life trigger warnings... and legitimately racist ones at that. They are simultaneously implying

  1. Only aborigines would be offended by seeing dead people for old voodoo reasons
  2. If you're an aborigine, this is how you should behave. Don't deviate from this stereotype, and you'd be wrong to adopt a different culture or set of beliefs
  3. Nobody else would possibly be offended by this

I didn't even read these whole articles, just skimmed and saw glaring examples. Everyday I hate the media more and more

[–] smallpond [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I guess we don't 100% know that these are related, but we do know they certainly wouldn't describe any connection between these two events if they knew.

I think it's highly likely that they knew, and any journalist with integrity would mention the vaccination a week earlier as information of general public interest - it's pretty dystopian when the second article says nothing at all.