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Column: What to do when your friends or family resist a COVID vaccine? Persist. Gently
Trib via Yahoo News ^ | April 5, 2021 | Mary Schmich

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: karen; marymurtaugh; maryschmich; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; vaccine
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To: DoodleBob

“Vaccine resisters”

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101 posted on 04/16/2021 4:25:40 AM PDT by Captain7seas (Don't resist, after all you will get a free shower.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

It never ceases to amaze me, the ignorant personal questions people ask.

When I get one, I make up an answer they’re sorry for, just for spite.

MYODB!

:D


102 posted on 04/16/2021 4:29:34 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: gundog

I would watch that, too.

:D


103 posted on 04/16/2021 4:30:09 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: Slyfox

“People! IT IS A COLD VIRUS. That is what “coronavirus” means.”

You’ve obviously had too much to think.

;)

/if only there were such a thing as INFLUENZA


104 posted on 04/16/2021 4:31:35 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: gundog
Well, I was considering naming it "Pain"
105 posted on 04/16/2021 4:34:02 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: afchief

A variation on LIE #2.

Actually, social distancing is the one thing that will always be effective if done properly.

Generally, if you’re not in close proximity to someone with COVID-19, your ability to contact is low.

There is conflicting info re: masks. Social distancing - not so much.


106 posted on 04/16/2021 4:35:02 AM PDT by Fury
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To: jerod

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.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

No, you got it because you are unnecessarily full of fear. Otherwise you would have simply lied to those around you and accomplished the same thing.


107 posted on 04/16/2021 4:36:28 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: DoodleBob
Dear Mary,

KMA

108 posted on 04/16/2021 4:39:08 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
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To: DoodleBob

There’s all sorts of info available for people to make a data informed decision.

If they get the shot or not, that’s up to them.


109 posted on 04/16/2021 4:45:37 AM PDT by Fury
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To: gundog
Coincidentally, I was rooting around in storage boxes, searching for a camera charging cord and ran across several Kukri machetes, new in their packages, sort of like this one, that I had completely apparently forgot I'd bought.

It was like Christmas :D


110 posted on 04/16/2021 4:50:11 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: gundog
Push me again

This is the end

(Here we go, here we go, here we go now)

One, nothing wrong with me

Two, nothing wrong with me

Three, nothing wrong with me

Four, nothing wrong with me

Let the bodies hit the floor

111 posted on 04/16/2021 4:51:35 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: DoodleBob
The top 4 states for COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 are New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, all Blue States.

Perhaps conservatives are better at personal risk management than liberals?

112 posted on 04/16/2021 4:52:31 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” -James Otis (1761))
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To: DoodleBob

A really good idea doesn’t need to be pushed this hard.


113 posted on 04/16/2021 4:57:20 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ronnie raygun

Wouldn’t that reveal what crap most of the testing is?


114 posted on 04/16/2021 4:59:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I went into the Head shop (vape/tobacco shop) and none of the staff were wearing masks. Ironic.
Around here, people put on a mask to go into the Walmarts and take it off the moment they get inside. Maskless people are sometimes referred to here as “breathers” or “vaxxers”. The most popular mask here is a Trump mask. People literally wear it to piss off liberals. I bought a Resist mask and I wear it under my nose.


115 posted on 04/16/2021 5:02:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: DoodleBob
Sometimes,” Murtaugh says, “all you need to do is plant a seed.”

I’ll do that with the Godpel, so that people don’t have to live in fear.
116 posted on 04/16/2021 5:03:20 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: DoodleBob

Never fear, the gullible are here!


117 posted on 04/16/2021 5:04:39 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: Salamander

Here’s one I got a chuckle hearing about: “I’m not allowed to wear a mask as a condition of my parole.”


118 posted on 04/16/2021 5:04:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

HA!!!

Gonna steal that.


119 posted on 04/16/2021 5:07:15 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: CodeToad

That was just in the propaganda movies that they saturated us with for 2-3 weeks in March 2020. After they served their purpose, they stopped showing them. Maybe they knew people were going to stop retching at the street corners and dropping dead on the sidewalks.


120 posted on 04/16/2021 5:09:32 AM PDT by ClarityGuy
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