Posted on 04/15/2021 10:30:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Mary Murtaugh is a recently retired nurse who says she has never been shy about promoting good health. She wasn’t shy the day she asked her favorite grocery store cashier if she’d been vaccinated.
The cashier was emphatic. No. And she wasn’t going to be. After listening to the cashier explain that she’d had a bad reaction to a flu shot, Murtaugh persisted.
“I told her that I would be worried if she contracted COVID,” Murtaugh says, and the clerk promised to think about it.
Promising to think about something is often no more than a polite deflection. But the cashier did think about it. She later reported she’d gotten two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and thanked Murtaugh for the “gentle push.”
“Sometimes,” Murtaugh says, “all you need to do is plant a seed.”
Planting seeds in people reluctant to get a vaccine can be like trying to garden in the Sahara. When I asked people on Facebook how they’ve handled vaccine resistance among their friends and family, they cataloged the pushback they’d received, a mishmash of fear and fantasy:
Needles hurt. COVID-19 is a Democratic hoax. The vaccines are a government conspiracy. They’re made of synthetic materials and we shouldn’t put synthetic materials into our bodies. The government is using vaccines to insert nanoprobes into our arms.
One woman lamented that an old high school friend wouldn’t get vaccinated because during a visit to the beauty salon she’d heard about a man in Poland who dropped dead upon receiving the shot.
It’s tempting to generalize about vaccine resisters, but they don’t all fall into neat categories. One conservative-voting man I know has gotten the vaccine, but his adult children refuse to.
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I would cut a person out of my life completely if they tried this with me.
No, respect their decision.
Hey Mary: You do you, I’ll make my own decisions. I’m pretty leery about this shot not just due to an adverse reaction I had, but I am uncertain whether it’s the inoculated or the non-inoculated are going to die when the ACTUAL virus is released.
Not like I am some weirdo conspiracy theorist or anything like that...
The day will come when they'll be burning crosses on our front lawns - in the name of "planting a seed."
Regards,
No adult I know enjoys being subjected to Free Nagging.
Quick way to lose a friend.
My body, my choice, eh?
Eff the COVID-19 vaccine whisperer.
Well, there’s always ‘mind your own business’ but somehow, that never seems to be the answer these days.
If there is at least one person in your family resisting the vaccine, then that’s a ray of hope not a problem to be solved.
I wish these idiots would mind their own business.
Geesh the self righteous smugness of this view point is nauseating.
You say ‘Good for you... If you don’t want it, don’t get it.’ I’ve never had a flu shot in my entire life and I’ve only had the flu once when I was a teenager. And yet, I got my covid shot and it was the AstraZeneca blood clot shot to boot...
Why did I get my shot? It was available to me in a country where covid shots are scarce and I did my part to ensure that if somebody I know does get covid, they won’t be getting it from me.
There isn’t one day that I’ve woken up thinking ‘I’m going to get covid’ during this entire nonsense and as far as I’m concerned this is the most overblown pandemic in human history. But I got my shot so that those who are unnecessarily full of fear and loathing (and sadly, many of my friends are), they will not need to be full of fear and loathing of me.
I’ve seen so many of these ‘Mary’s’ round the corner at a store and come face-to-face with me. They freeze in their tracks, eyes as large as saucers, visibly shaking as though they’ll drop dead before reaching the cashier.
The absolute last thing I’d consider is taking advice from them.
Archie: "#?!#@^ No flying way! … Meathead will go wit youz."
Maybe you should go after them with a machete until they agree?
This is my e-mail a few minutes ago. https://welovetrump.com/2021/04/15/denmarks-head-of-medicine-collapsed-announcing-the-discontinuation-of-the-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine/
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