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My wife (56) and my daughter (almost 17) both want the vax, I have shown them the numbers, shown them the stories, they just say "so and so" and "doctor so and so" and "everyone" else has gotten it, and the scarlet letter is too much ... they think I'm crazy. What else can I do?
posted ago by WinsAnon ago by WinsAnon +450 / -2

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.

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