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My family is divided over COVID-19 vaccinations. Here's how we cope
LA Times via Yahoo ^ | May 30, 2021 | Sandy Banks

Posted on 06/06/2021 3:35:10 PM PDT by DoodleBob

...I have been celebrating since February, when I got my first shot of the Moderna vaccine at a San Fernando Valley park. My sister Anita in Cleveland has spent the months since then worrying about me... Ever since COVID-19 vaccines became a reality, she’s been poring over articles and social media posts about hypothetical harms that most scientists debunk. That left her determined to shun the vaccine — and afraid for me to get my next shot.

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...my fear of needing a ventilator to breathe was stronger than whatever apprehension I felt about the vaccines.

For my sister, that ratio was reversed. She worried that the new COVID vaccines might turn out, in the long run, to be as dangerous as the disease.

Our email exchange launched a back-and-forth that lasted for months. It was fractious and frustrating at times, because we are tethered to separate echo chambers that amplify our individual views.

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“This is a new disease and these are new vaccines, with emergency use authorizations,” she said. “We have a lot of information on how safe and effective it is. But what hasn’t been studied is what it can do five or 10 years from now.

“So it’s totally reasonable for some people to say, ‘This is brand new and it’s hard for me to really feel comfortable with it.’”

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So we’ve finally reached a truce: she won’t send me scary videos demonizing the vaccines, and I won’t try to debunk what I consider crazy stuff.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: families; vaccines
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To: DoodleBob

If the companies were not exempt from civil liabilities, then and only then, go for it!


2 posted on 06/06/2021 3:40:08 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: DoodleBob

“...and social media posts about hypothetical harms that most scientists debunk.”

There are two words in the above that suggest to me that the author voted for Fake Joe. One is ‘hypothetical”. The other is “debunk”


3 posted on 06/06/2021 3:41:20 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: DoodleBob

Is your family divided about the POLITICAL PANDEMIC?


4 posted on 06/06/2021 3:42:20 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

Be a man, put on your man pants and get it done.


5 posted on 06/06/2021 3:43:12 PM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: DoodleBob

I love crap like this. If I’m right and these vaccines are harmful, idiots like this one will be dead or unhealthy in the long run.

If I’m wrong there’s no harm, no foul.

This is medical Darwinism. If you’re to dumb to consider all the facts you get what you deserve. I’m done with this BS.


6 posted on 06/06/2021 3:43:48 PM PDT by ModernDayCato
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To: DoodleBob; metmom; ransomnote; Cathi

But my sister’s experience has been markedly different. Her social media feeds are crowded with conspiracy theories, reminders of the mercenary leanings of Big Pharma, and testimonials from people who say they were harmed by the vaccine.


Ha! No leftist Yahoo bias, there.

Sounds eerily familiar to what many of the FR VPs have said.

🤔

Thanks for posting this great exposé 😉


7 posted on 06/06/2021 3:45:35 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: DownInFlames

Why?


8 posted on 06/06/2021 3:45:58 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to says it.)
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To: DoodleBob
Here's how we cope

Thanksgiving all over again.

9 posted on 06/06/2021 3:47:49 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Mark

Show anyone who thinks about it this.

The history of the cartel

https://phoreveryoung.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/the-worst-cover-up-in-the-history-of-the-world-vaccinations-are-monkey-business/

Also

http://vaxtruth.org/


10 posted on 06/06/2021 3:51:16 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: TalBlack

It is a bit odd to be celebrating an injection since February that has “hypothetical side effects” that are “mostly debunked”.

Some people just embrace the suck I guess.


11 posted on 06/06/2021 3:51:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: DownInFlames

Lol, pants wouldn’t fit over your sheep leggings.


12 posted on 06/06/2021 3:53:50 PM PDT by sageburn
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To: Mark

Reading every self-righteous comment from the mask-wearing idiots is enlightening. They all speak of their ‘fear’ about one thing or another.

How sad they’ve never had to fear a damned thing during their entire existence, except perhaps running out of coffee or wine.

I can’t believe any of these mental midgets are my fellow countrymen.


13 posted on 06/06/2021 3:54:20 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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They fan societal flames to ensure that non-vaccinated are deemed ignorant and dangerous. And then when those concerned about the 'vaccines' are spreading the word, they provide 'teachable moments' to tell us to stop talking about it.

There are safe, effective treatments available that cut the death risk for the most vulnerable (elderly with co-morbitidies) by 85% but the MSM still helps the CDC, FAUCI hide the good news from the public.

Early Treatment Protocols (Collection of Covid-19 resources, treatment and prophylactic protocols)


14 posted on 06/06/2021 3:54:23 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: American in Israel

Exactly! These people do not listen to themselves.


15 posted on 06/06/2021 3:55:30 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Mark

95% of the deaths from the Fauci Flu were over 70 with 2.6 comorbidities.

the Mortality rate for the Fauci Flu is .15%, that means 99.85% of the people that get will be just fine and have Natural Immunity.

Is an Experimental Vaccine using a New Technology that when tested before, EVERY LAB ANIMAL DIED, Really Necessary for a Virus with a Better than 99% Chance of Survival???


16 posted on 06/06/2021 3:56:43 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Mark

We cope with it by locking our son in his room and not letting him come out.


17 posted on 06/06/2021 3:59:05 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Jane Long; DoodleBob
"Fauxccine Bingo"


18 posted on 06/06/2021 4:01:19 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Mark

I will not take these therapies. I had the disease and I did fine. That being said I am concerned what the “vaccines” will do to the immune system when the next coronavirus is released. This is not a vaccine. It is a gene therapy that alters your natural immune system. Yes. Get it if you are at risk. Fine. But the non stop 24/7 “get the jab” Fauci worshipping propaganda from people who hate every fiber of my being is not reassuring.


19 posted on 06/06/2021 4:03:00 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: DownInFlames
Be a man, put on your man pants and get it done.

???...a man would admit he was duped by Dr. Mengele Fauxi and NOT take an experimental shot. Coronaviruses have been around for thousands of years. What were you so afraid of that you got an experimental treatment and now attempt to shame others? Tough to admit the Branch Covidians rooked you?

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

20 posted on 06/06/2021 4:08:57 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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