Hostile reaction from colleague

[Zig27]

I am temping and bumped into an ex colleague. As soon as he found out I had not had the vaccine he leant right back and said you need to get it done and that he could not understand why I had not had it done. I found the leaning response insulting as we were a couple of metres apart and wearing masks. For all I know he could be a carrier and risk to me and yet was acting as though I had covid. I don’t know why he thinks he is immune. I think he may be a negative person in general as he started moaning saying his family are right wing bigots that annoy him, I’m not sure why he felt the need to tell me this. No-one else goes round asking personal questions about my health so I don’t know why he thinks he can.

Loving the thought that people who choose not to have a medical procedure and those what want to berate them into having it are the unselfish ones

Their choice. As is my choice not to associate with vaccine refusers.

Eh? Why would you do this if you’ve had yours?
Don't you trust your vaccine?

I am CEV and immunocompromised so the vaccine may not fully protect me. There are many people like me. Not to mention those who are yet to be offered the vaccine and do not want to risk catching the virus.

I would also suspect that someone who refuses the vaccine may be careless about infection.
People who can't have it for medical reasons are more likely to be ultra cautious.

I'd lean right back if I thought someone had refused to have the vaccine.

Why would you lean back if someone had refused the vaccine, rather than just anyone who hasn’t had it for whatever reason? They aren’t more of a threat to you if they’re 35 and have refused than if they’re 25 and haven’t been offered yet.

I wouldn’t lean back from someone who hasn’t had the vaccine, however I wouldn’t want to talk to someone who was going on about conspiracy theories related to it, because I’d find that too tedious.

All of us are supposed to still be behaving as if anyone you meet might be carrying asymptomatic covid. Whether or not OP is vaccinated should not change her colleague's behaviour around OP.

He shouldn't have been leaning closer just because he thought she was vaccinated.

Difference with a smear is that it presents no issues to anyone else. Unvaccinated person may or may not depending on a variety of factors. Sounds like he felt it was something that could affect him.
Can we have a thread closed for a half day now

I don't ask people because it's none of my business. It is down to the individual to take the vaccine or not.

I want a thread closed button.

Just don't tell people OP. Just say not yet and leave it at that.

@Zig27

Thread closed.

Erm OK then...

Well you've given your own answer haven't you OP? "I can't have it currently for medical reasons"

And if they are dim and rude enough to enquire further, then you are perfectly entitled to respond with a "I really don't think that's any of your business/we are not close enough for me to want to divulge my personal history to you/that's rather an inappropriate question to ask, don't you think?" With a hard stare.

So fed up of the way women are socialised to have to be "nice" and automatically answer questions even if they don't want to. No we don't. Try it OP, it's liberating.