Vaccinate to protect those you love! Vaccinations are not only about "you"!

Get vaccinated! For the common good! Protect your family!

How to talk about vaccines - check this World Health Organization poster series here.

Echo plea published in the News Advance a Virginia newspaper.

Many people, including me, got vaccinated against COVID-19 to help protect our whole community against illness, hospitalization and death and to stop the virus from multiplying and mutating into a more infectious or more deadly form. Getting vaccinated prevented us from causing someone else to become sick. While I am protected against hospitalization and death, I could still be a spreader.

Now we have the delta variant which spreads much more easily. So we who are vaccinated wear masks to protect those who are not vaccinated.

There is still time for everyone to do their part. If you are not yet vaccinated, please consider getting vaccinated to protect others and reduce that chances of another more deadly variant from emerging. Working together we can make our community safer, allow schools to operate in-person, support the full reopening of businesses and to put the pandemic behind us. But everyone needs to pitch in.

To all who are vaccinated or soon will be vaccinated, thank you.

To others, please consider - and receive a vaccine- for the health of your neighbors. Thank you.

Molly McClenon, Lynchburg Virginia