Love Island’s Shaughna Phillips is a batshit anti-vaxxer

I really don’t know why I bother getting into these debates. I have better things to do that argue with some Love Island airhead spouting off anti-vaxx claptrap. Especially when I’m out with family. But whatever. 

Listen. Since lockdown has been lifted, I’ve persistently called people out for anti-vaxx remarks. I’ve worked the whole pandemic for an essential service, I’ve taken all the vaccines that have been offered to me, and I’ve encouraged others to do so too. I’m not going to bang on about work, but LOADS of my clients have died. My parents are in their 60s and 70s, and they have pre-existing health conditions. My prerogative has been keeping them safe. 

I’m more than aware that the vaccine is only 90% effective, so I’m aware that there’s still a possibility that they can get ill if they were to catch COVID. As the scientists have said from the beginning, it’s important that we vaccinate as many people as possible to prevent as much spread as possible. This will also reduce the chance of other, new variants emerging for which the current vaccines might not be as effective. 

Hence, when I see young, healthy people spouting off with their bullshit opinions and total pseudo-scientific remarks, I call them out. They are the problem. If you believe anything other than that, you are too. So, if Shauna Phillips from Love Island Season 6 enters my tweet feed (despite not even following her) and I see she’s misinforming her 102.5K followers, I will kick off. As you can see, she bit. And then blocked me.

Some screenshots I managed to grab before Love Island's Shaughna Phillips blocked me. Listen. TV shows and social media platforms need to stop allowing people to spout off with their ill-informed opinions and complete non-science. pic.twitter.com/1P9kbzmlkB

— Matt Tuckey 🇬🇧 (@matthewtuckey) January 9, 2022

More to the point, Shaughna, from Love Island S6 with 102k followers, should not be encouraging NHS workers to go about their jobs unvaccinated. She should not be turning public opinion against heads of the NHS who are having to make a necessary but difficult decision. pic.twitter.com/H58t4pIN08

— Matt Tuckey 🇬🇧 (@matthewtuckey) January 9, 2022

Shaughna IS vaccinated, or so she says. The problem is, she, like many other people, thinks that her vaccination only affects her. The reality is, we get vaccinated to protect OTHER people, a concept Shaughna- and many others- evidently find totally alien. She then digresses into Thalidomide, which wasn't a vaccine, didn't have trials and was 50 years ago.

I was going to write a lengthy post about this, but what’s the point? You know my stance. You’ve been given the facts in daily Coronavirus press briefings for the last 2 years. If you don’t understand those facts, it’s on you. But you can expect to be called out if you get those facts wrong, or if you could take the vaccine, but due to being straight-up wrong, won’t.