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.
The DS and MSM are being very successful at playing on people's fears of social rejection, and shaming many of them into taking what they present is a safe vaccine, when in fact they might well be luring them to their death.
Everyone I know and love - my entire family, cousins and all my lifelong friends - think getting the vax is just the 'thing to do" - no discussion. These are good, intelligent people, but for some reason they will accept what the MSM tells them and will do no serious research themselves (or pay any attention to what I send them).
It is a very sobering and lonely realization to discover that only some of us, for some reason, are destined to see beyond the smoke and mirrors and understand what is really going on. Many many others in my life apparently have a different destiny. Only my deceased brother's widow gets it. She is the only person I know and love that I can talk to, and I'm the only one in her life, too.
My heart goes out to you, fren. I think a lot of us are in this situation and it hurts.
Lonely is a great way to put it. It's not like, I want to VAX for societal acceptance, but it is lonely being one of the only ones awake. While you watch the sheep walk into slaughter.
Its why I come to this site. Tho my immediate family is anti Vax, most ppl here are for it.