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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReported today in my city, with a population of 186,542, that around 35% will not get vaccinated.
As in refusing to get vaccinated. The news had a couple of people stating why and one of them made me particularly mad. The reason for not getting vaccinated? "I will put my faith in God".
I wanted so much to be able to ask this person a couple of questions. But the first one that came to mind was, if you were in a wreck and had a big gash in your side and were bleeding to death, would you "put your faith in God" to keep you from dying, or would you allow medical personnel to treat you?
I'm sure there are more reasonable and measured questions that should be asked of these people, but that was my first thought.
msongs
(67,433 posts)nobody else
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)questionseverything
(9,657 posts)God
He sent us scientists that developed a
Vaccine 💉
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)God had nothing to do with it.
questionseverything
(9,657 posts)We all get to have our own
😎
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)Scrivener7
(50,992 posts)StClone
(11,686 posts)So many anti-Science, Con, Trumpkin, goof balls would reply angrily stuff like "it's just the flu...I don't know what's in that crap...no!, it's all just bs..." I was then asking, "didn't you ever get small pox, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis...vaccines?!!" I had to knock it off because of undue negativity it was creating!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)StClone
(11,686 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,418 posts)We are all living in the same petrie dish. Without herd immunity, we lose a huge percentage of the population....not all of them anti-vaxer jerks.
I am going to propose a simpler explanation for the anti-vax phenomenon. As children, WE ALL HATED NEEDLES! Only when coerced by parents did we surrender our arm and butts for shots.
As we grew older, most of us were able to make the rational choice to endure a momentary pinch for the benefits of the jab.
Others adults, however, are still terrified of needles. They will use any bullshit rationalization to avoid getting a shot. It's not really political. It's not really religious. It's not about "natural" health.
It's about the damn needle!
StClone
(11,686 posts)...for a good percentage of those reticent, hell totally negative, on getting protective vaccines. Wonder if they could develop a nasal spray version? Oral seems unlikely for a corona virus.
StarryNite
(9,459 posts)But one needle is better than countless needles if I were to wind up in the hospital with COVID. So next week I will get my jab. Not looking forward to it. Just looking forward to getting it over with.
Walleye
(31,039 posts)Hekate
(90,773 posts)...the bandaid when I looked back. I felt like they must have invented a hair-thin needle. Anyhow, I hope that is the case for you.
Wounded Bear
(58,694 posts)I've had varying levels of discomfort from flu shots over the years, but I still get those every year.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)I know being rational has nothing to do with the fear of needles, but .....
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Ananda62
(258 posts)In the people I meet in Vegas. My realtor, my tenant, the tenants two adult daughters (one who is a nurse) told me today that they WILL NOT get the vaccine. My realtor even claimed that a cousin of hers died of COVID19 a week after getting the 2nd shot. She of course blames the vaccine 🙄
Its no use arguing or trying to convince these people. Maybe when travel and businesses are limited to vaccinated only, they might change their minds,
Hekate
(90,773 posts)So theres that
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)AA.
Mister Ed
(5,943 posts)...then why do you need a gun?"
(Not an original idea of mine. I read it somewhere on DU.)