Posted on 01/15/2023 6:37:23 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
I am bumping this post to the top of the page and updating because, well, I’ll explain.
First, thank you. Sincere and genuine thankfulness for your fellowship. Visitors to this site continue to prove that our nation is created by, and an assembly of, the most decent, honest, generous and kind-hearted people in the world. The responses to the question of ‘why didn’t you take the covid-19 shot?’ are nothing short of remarkable.
In the bigger picture if you want to fill up your faith cup and recognize the scale of commonsense assembly in our nation, take the time to read through the 2,000+ responses.
The feedback you are providing is exceptional and trust me when I say that far more people are reading these responses than you could fathom. Additionally, the responses have reasserted my belief in the scale of our national assembly. There are far more of us, ordinary, hardworking, commonsense, pragmatic and smart people, than the self-described intellectual elites would ever admit.
In addition to the responses below, there have been hundreds of emails answering the question, which suddenly made me realize that no one has really ever asked this question before in a format that provides ordinary people with the ability to respond.
There is also a yearning to talk about this issue, publicly and with deliberation; massively so. And I am hopeful (insert grin here) this small corner of the internet is about to push this conversation into a much larger national forum. Our nation needs a big conversation about this.
If I had to pick a single phrase to encapsulate the myriad of phenomenal responses to the question I would use the phrase, “intellectual discernment”; which again provides buckets of faith that a large number of people are wide awake, albeit part of what I call a potato revolution growing safely underground.
Also, unbeknownst to front page readers I am stunned at the people in/around operation warp-speed, these are people in government directly attached to the issue, who have contacted CTH on the backside, stepped forward and said they also didn’t take the shot because, well, despite their belief in the purpose and principle at the time, things were just not adding up and ultimately seemed sketchy. They couldn’t talk (so they felt), couldn’t even hint at their concern; but when it came to making the personal decision, they waited.
I also owe it to you to answer the question of my own status, which is a big heck no – I did not take the jab.
Why? Because in the preceding years of all my research into the rapidly exposed corruption of our government, there was just no way in hell I was going to trust that same system. A system that literally was working outside the constitution and legal framework of our nation to destroy a sitting U.S. President is going to suddenly care about my health. Nope, it did not align. I also looked at the datapoint of the U.S.S. Comfort delivered to New York City under the grandest of media proclamations about impending medical doom, only to see the ship sit empty and completely unused despite the scale of the narrative that surround its purpose.
Lastly, and more obliquely, the datapoint of one of my heroes Franklin Graham assembling a NY field hospital to serve over 20,000 patients; another massive endeavor that sat empty and without use. However, prior to the hindsight, it was the in-real-time fight from officials in/around the area who tried to block Samaritans Purse from setting up the facility. If the SARS-CoV-2 issue was as great a threat as declared, then why would anyone fight to keep out a field hospital that could provide such relief. It just didn’t make sense.
Those issues, and others, formed the baseline of my inability to reconcile the key issue of ‘trust’ needed to believe in the vaccine. Additionally, I am healthy and not within any of the risk factors. However, I also feel strongly that each health decision is unique to the individual person, and everyone was making the best decisions for them based on the available information at the time; so, I carry no judgement for those who made a different choice.
As noted, I am bumping this to the top of the site so that our conversation can continue. Normally I would start a new thread, but this one is different. I don’t want to break the continuity and I want to provide everyone the ability to see they are not alone.
Love to all,
Sundance
Reader feedback request. I was quite shocked to review a poll I took on the Twitter last month showing that 85% of the people who follow the CTH Twitter account [TLR2] did not take the COVID-19 jab.
Without any judgement implied or inferred I am genuinely curious, why not?
With the situation clearly in hindsight, and/or given all the pressure that may have been applied to each individual situation, I am genuinely curious what was it that made you choose not to take the COVID-19 vaccination.
If you are comfortable, and please understand that no pressure is intended in any way whatsoever, could you share why you didn’t take the vaccine and how do you feel about that decision in hindsight?
If you did take the vaccination, there is also no judgement in this question. As I said back in 2021 each individual is unique, each situation is unique, and each person has to make the best decision about what is in their individual best interests. So please, don’t let this issue divide our conversation.
I am genuinely curious as to the reason so many people would withstand the public and perhaps peer pressure to follow the ‘vaccination’ advice. Also, how has that decision impacted your life? Did you lose friends and family over your personal health decision? Did those relationships heal over time? Or anything else you might find pertinent to the general question.
My niece took the jab while she was pregnant. Her baby daughter is now weighing in at 14 pounds when the baby should be 19 pounds at this point.
"If you get the shot, it will destroy your immunity to COVID"
So I didn't and my antibody count as of December 2022 was 585.
To this day I will not get the shots. I have not had a cold or flu or covid. But those I know who have had the shot have had one or all of these.
Ditto, and, ditto.
Everyone we know, who’s either had (several bout of) china virus, colds, flu, etc.....have been jabbed :-(
Not getting the jab(s) turned out to be the correct decision.
Being pro-life, as soon as I saw aborted fetal cells were involved, I wanted no part in it
I will never forget either. I hope their criminal lies and deceit come blasting forth before anymore are hurt. I’m old enough to remember Fauci and his criminal experiments from the 80’s and before. No way I’m taking anything he has touched. No more vaxes for me at all unless it’s an emergency tetanus shot or something.
My husband was in the hospital with several pulmonary embolisms in October, not Covid related. When he got out, he was assigned a home health nurse and a PT for two months.
One of the young nurses said that her husband’s best friend developed heart issues after his vax and her husband developed an arrythmia after his. She said neither of them would take anymore boosters.
Anything the government is selling I’m not buying.
My doctor advised me not to take the shot, telling me that it would compromise my natural immunity resulting from recovery from covid.
Several years ago, my pastor shared an urgent prophetic message from one of the missionaries in Africa whom our church supported spiritually and financially.
The African missionary had a disturbing vision. He saw a flock of sheep peacefully grazing in a meadow. Then he saw a wolf dressed in sheep clothing.
The trusting sheep allowed the wolf to mingle within their flock. Then the wolf took out a syringe and began inoculating them, they fell over dead.
I vowed I would never get a vaccine after hearing that.
I am job hunting, and I am sometimes asked by recruiters (usually of India extraction) if I had my shots. Some ask “Why not?” when I tell them “No! If an employer insists on it, he wants somebody else. That is a deal-breaker” (I give these guys and gals credit, they stay on script no matter what).
Although I have religious, intellectual discernment, and Yankee crankiness to blame in part, I mainly wonder why GETTING the shot is the default position? I am tempted next time to claim “Inertia. A body at rest stays at rest.” But they wouldn’t get it.
“Maybe just maybe, we shouldn’t be broadcasting these into the great internet hive and AI.”
TOO LATE!
The testing, I never trusted it. It was pretty obvious from the start. There was an incentive to diagnosing folks with Covid, both a political and a monetary incentive, they even admitted as much. The common flu that we’ve been dealing with every year since birth does not suddenly disappear!
History demands an AMERICAN NUREMBURG , full-on tribunals for capital crimes.
The friend who lost the baby - the baby was still born. Mom took the vax on recommendation of her doctor.
The testing, I never trusted it. It was pretty obvious from the start. There was an incentive to diagnosing folks with Covid, both a political and a monetary incentive, they even admitted as much. The common flu that we’ve been dealing with every year since birth does not suddenly disappear!
That gave me chills.
“Why not?”
Because I’m informed. Period.
I could care less why others didn’t because the presumption is likewise.
What I WOULD like to know is each of the 3400 - and the rest of us - were willing to go all the way if the pressure ratcheted up...
BTW I’m one of those they claimed as high risk for covid - compromised immune system since childhood, over 65 .... But I am not on any perscription medication whatsoever.
I have not taken and don’t plan to.
For me, not enough time has passed to judge the side effects.
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