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LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (CNN) - A Florida mother is sharing her story about how she nearly died from COVID-19 and regrets not getting vaccinated.
It was horrifying. I never in my life have felt like I was going to die until that day, Ganeene Starling said.
Starling had chosen not to get the vaccine. Her husband and her children werent vaccinated either.
Honestly, I think I listened. I think I let people influence me, like saying Oh, you know, this is the government just trying to fill our bodies with stuff and theyre trying to push this shot on us, Starling said.
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I was one of those people that was like, I cant believe people are just going to inject their bodies with this medication. We dont know enough about it. Now, Im just like, its just a shot. Just get the stupid shot. That vaccine could have stopped all of this. Just one little shot, Starling said.
https://www.kktv.com/2021/07/23/mom-8-nearly-dies-covid-regrets-not-getting-vaccinated/
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)Aka the usual selfish repuke
Something is only a problem until it happens to them, everyone else is wrong and go fuck off
A fool and their health are soon parted
Vinca
(50,278 posts)endangered healthcare workers. Maybe she can atone somewhat if she gets back on her conspiracy theory sites and tells her story.
Grins
(7,218 posts)
and who might those people be, Ms Starling?
And what does that tell you?
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)Personal responsibility = blame someone else.
RainCaster
(10,884 posts)What is wrong with these people?
Silent3
(15,231 posts)...none of the other idiots like her will learn a damned thing from what she went through or her example of changing her mind.
These stories, unfortunately, will do little more than make people like us on DU feel smug about being smarter -- and I'm not saying that's a bad thing. We deserve to feel smugly smarter.
But the media the Trumpists and the anti-vaxxers listen to isn't going to report these stories. If these people somehow get wind of these stories anyway, they'll dismiss them as "fake news".
Nope. Most of this lot is incapable of learning from anything but direct personal consequences, and won't even necessarily learn from that either.
BannonsLiver
(16,396 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)...which are just as synthetic as the mRNA vaccines, only we have never tried those before either. This is a totally new field of treatment for a virus, it's all new territory, but we know it's safe because we have a decent idea how cellular interaction happens at that level.
The key is that Regeneron only reduces death by 20% while the vaccine reduces death by like 98-99% and hospitalization by like 95%. By the time you're getting the anti-bodies you are already very, very sick.
When Trump got COVID and got those experimental anti-bodies (we really haven't done that before, we've only recently gained the technology to make whole anti-bodies from scratch), I knew it would cure him, and it is maddening that these people can't trust in the medical science. I almost, almost, wish those anti-bodies came a month or three later in development than they did... but they've saved tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people (US government ordered over 1.5 million doses of it but it's unclear how much has been administered, it is certainly a very large number though, elderly people and at risk people get dosed regardless of their condition if they test positive for COVID).