I'm preaching to the choir here, but as I am finally recovering fully from COVID, I strongly

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encourage anyone who has not received ALL of their shots to do so. My 81 year old father contracted it at the same time and I firmly believe had he not had the first two and the third booster, he would have ended up in the hospital -- or worse.

Of course most of you able to do so medically have done so, but you can ad this example of someone who didn't end up in the hospital dying -- wishing he had taken the vaccination -- to your arguments with RW or conspiracy friends or family.

ON EDIT: without the vaccine I would have had ever more severe problems. As it was, I had Long Covid.

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1. A few otherwise liberal acquaintances

It's not just the RWNJ. I have a few otherwise liberal acquaintances that are eschewing the vaccine if favor of "natural remedies". Mostly it's a bunch of woo woo type stuff, daily breathing exercises, herbal teas, meditation, avoiding GMO's (no, I have no idea what that has to do with COVID). I won't visit with them in person. One person's husband ended up in the hospital and we were all asked to "pray for him". I was tempted to respond with "Pray that he finally gets a shot?" but thought better of it.