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‘Only hot people get the Pfizer vaccine’ — inject the vaccine fan fiction directly into my veins

Two days after rollout of the Johnson & Johnson shot was halted, a TikTok dropped, anthropomorphizing the vaccination effort as a clique of dramatic teens.

(Nichole Shinn | The New York Times) “Inject it directly into my veins” used to be a way of talking about a piece of culture we desperately wanted to consume, but now the inverse is happening: We are experiencing our vaccine injections as if they are coveted cultural products.

(Nichole Shinn | The New York Times) “Inject it directly into my veins” used to be a way of talking about a piece of culture we desperately wanted to consume, but now the inverse is happening: We are experiencing our vaccine injections as if they are coveted cultural products.