“I won’t take the vaccine-if for NO other reason, because it’s touted by the US government.”
I won’t take the vaccine simply because I’m not sufficiently afraid of Covid19.
Other than a few Trump-hating Democrats, I don’t know anyone that even knows anyone who had a case of Covid that was remotely life threatening.
Early on, these Trump-haters were giddy at the prospect of President Trump getting blamed for a deadly pandemic - so they eagerly drank up every lie, every exaggeration and every bogus statistic that Fauci and the fake news would offer up.
Every flu related death - and much, much more - got falsely attributed to Covid. And even when including every fake Covid death as real - the odds of dying of Covid are still extremely low.
I’m sure there is truth to to the horror stories of Covid being mismanaged in various old people homes, and causing actual Covid deaths.
But we have several old people homes in my area in the Philadelphia suburbs - and not one of the hundreds of old people I know personally died of Covid.
The bottom line for me is that I am 69 years old and I am more afraid of being struck by lightening or a tree falling on me than I am of Covid.
If I was sufficiently afraid of Covid, I would weigh that fear against the risk of an adverse reaction from the government vaccine - and perhaps I’d go ahead and get my shot.
But I’m just not afraid enough of Covid to bother.
Regarding the meme that getting vaccinated is an act of kindness - that by doing so, we are protecting others - well, that sounds like horse shit to me.
I think the best way to protect others from a virus is to let our natural immune systems deal with them as much as possible, and only use man-made vaccines as a last resort.
After all, the way a vaccine works is by stimulating the natural immune system - even with a vaccine, we are totally depending on our natural immune systems to protect us. So we should exercise our immune systems - not use crutches. As they say: “Use it or lose it.”
I just don’t see this virus as being so scary and out of control that we should all give up on our natural immune systems that have kept us safe for a million years - and resort to a completely unproven man-made medical treatment.
That’s about what my doctor said when I told him I didn’t want to take it.
I think of all the YEARS lesser medications have been delayed before FDA approved for use... sometimes even THOSE medications were later withdrawn!
THIS vaccine is not FDA approved, anyway