Someone I know recently died of COVID. He didn't have to.
About a year before the pandemic began I, 75 years old, started having my prescriptions delivered.
The pharmacy ‘outsourced’ the delivery to a company, ScriptDrop, which delivers for pharmacies nationwide.
The man who regularly delivered to me was mid twenties, polite, and professional. We’d briefly chat as he gave me the medications. We did not become friends, but were friendly.
Once COVID began we each masked up and social distanced during contact. With time I became vaccinated and got my booster. I asked him if he’d had his shots.
He said no. He and his wife had a young baby and were unsure about the vaccines. None of their friends could tell them what was in the shots, and they’d heard some horror stories on the news about what might happen in the future to people who got the vaccines. Even heard people who had been vaccinated might start dropping dead some time in the future.
He and his wife decided to wait and see what would happen with the vaccine.
If, down the road, it seemed OK... then they might get it.
Abut six weeks ago someone new started delivering my prescriptions. I asked several times about the previous delivery man but no one said. Then I was finally told he passed of COVID.
No one knew of his wife and baby's health, if they are OK.
Mid twenties, a husband, and father.
He said they wanted to wait and see what would happen with the virus.
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Thank goodness. As it happens, that's about the same as here in Georgia, but eventually our tragic stories will dwindle.
I also read that in another 3 months 3/4 of the people in the world may have received at least one shot. Something to be glad of. 
RIP.
is in the shot?” until the magats started saying that? 
What a stupid thing for someone to say.
I'm sure that almost all of us on DU are vaccinated, but it seems we all know friends, family and acquaintances who are NOT vaxxed for one reason or another. The reasons aren't always "political" but it surely seem that the political ones are taking center-stage now.
A good friend of mine who's probably more progressively liberal than I am, isn't able to get the shots because she's a diabetic with other health problems. I haven't spoken with her in several months, and I do hope she's OK but she can never leave her house. She's living in constant fear of coming in contact with Covid, and she's even careful around her own daughter and son-in-law. Covid has changed all of us, and we're the lucky ones who were able to get the vaccine early in the year.
Like you I cannot understand how someone would delay or refuse the vaccine that's freely available, when it would obviously save their life and/or their health.
