To be fair, I've heard my wife explain to her friends that she wants to wait and see whether more long-term effects come from the vaccines. She doesn't fear covid, neither does my daughter, but they say we don't know the long-term effects of covid either.
My most persuasive argument is showing them - from the CDC's own VAERS reporting network (which I know is wildly under-reporting problems from the vaccine) - that more people age 29 and below have died within 30 days of taking the vaccine over the last four months than have died in 17 months of having covid.
They still say it's a tiny fraction of total vaccines.
My brother in law, who is a doctor and who is staunchly Conservative, has had the Pfizer vaccine, and he doesn't believe the vaccines are designed to - or will - impair our immune systems or behave like a delivery methodology for later problems. He points to the fact that Trump continues to promote the vaccines and take credit for them along with his scientific understanding of the vaccines. And he's a skeptic of all things governmental.
I've seen the Del Bigtree stuff on this. It's alarming, for sure.
But the public shaming is at a fever pitch - particularly here in crazy Seattle - and I think it can even get worse with passports.
I feel like my wife gets to make up her own mind in the end, but for my daughter, I just can't say yes to the vaccine. She is so mad at me because she thinks I'm irrationally quashing her social life. I tell her I'd rather her be mad at me and alive than happy with me and dead ... or infertile, or ill, or a ticking time bomb of some other physical or mental problem.
This is just more division by the Left. Please pray for us and everyone in this situation.
Each person needs to make their own informed choice, based on their own research and exercise of their own free will.
I tried my very best to try to convince my mother not to take the shot but she chose to get it. I respect her freedom and autonomy to make that decision for herself. However in doing so I also requested that she make certain that her estate was in order with a will and medical directives just in case she has a reaction. I didn't want be stuck with a mess while simultaneously stricken with grief.
That's all you can do. I found it helpful to pray for my own peace of mind no matter what my family members choose and especially for peace in the case of an adverse event.
You probably already know this, but these shots aren't really vaccines in the truest sense of the word. They are 100% experimental and as such NO ONE can force your wife or daughter to get one, lest they be liable for damage.
Same. I can show them articles on statistics, but if they prefer to follow the herd I can't do anything except pray.
I feel lucky to have struggled with a mood disorder earlier in my life. I did a lot of reading on the history of treatments and the development of meds that later turned out to be harmful. It made me very skeptical of the medical profession, not that I don't listen to my doctor, too.