I had to chastise a good friend yesterday because his pregnant wife was considering getting the jab. I said look, if she really thinks the potential benefit is worth the potential risks, then whatever that's her call, but please WAIT until the baby is born at least. How can you even consider taking experimental drugs while pregnant???

They're not even lefties, they're conservative people, but they live in Brazil where the propaganda and lockdowns are still quite severe. People are feeling so desperate to get back to normal that they aren't thinking rationally.

In their mind, if the vaccine numbers are high then the gov will open everything back up faster. I told him the numbers won't influence anything, they'll only start opening when they've accomplished their political goals from the chaos. They have their presidential election next year and they are very obviously planning to imitate the US election to get the current president Bolsonaro (the Tropical Trump) out of office.

Fortunately he was quite receptive and said he would discuss it more with her.

I had to chastise a good friend yesterday because his pregnant wife was considering getting the jab. I said look, if she really thinks the potential benefit is worth the potential risks, then whatever that's her call, but please WAIT until the baby is born at least. How can you even consider taking experimental drugs while pregnant???

They're not even lefties, they're conservative people, but they live outside the US where the propaganda and lockdowns are still quite severe. People are feeling so desperate to get back to normal that they aren't thinking rationally.

Fortunately he was quite receptive and said he would discuss it more with her.